Save Our Saluda

Analysis

Save Our Saluda is a registered charity in United States, based in Marietta, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2009, 17 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, Save Our Saluda reported income of $323k and spending of $329k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $302k to $323k (+6.9%), an average of +2.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 116%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Save Our Saluda sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile, and in the 68th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Middlesex Land Trust ($323k), Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers ($323k) and Environmental Protection Information Center Inc ($323k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $96k (29% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $73k against liabilities of -$183, net assets of $74k.