Darien Nature Center Inc

Analysis

Darien Nature Center Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Darien, CT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1981, 45 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Darien Nature Center Inc reported income of $1.1m and spending of $1.2m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $937k to $1.1m (+22%), an average of +5.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 51%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Darien Nature Center Inc sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 79th percentile within CT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Generation Atomic ($1.1m), The Stewardship Network ($1.1m) and Kuskokwim River Inter Tribal Fish Commission ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 18% and program service revenue 78% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $752k. At year end it held assets of $2.9m against liabilities of $2,373, net assets of $2.9m. It reported 47 employees.