Citizens Campaign Fund for the Environment

Analysis

Citizens Campaign Fund for the Environment is a registered charity in United States, based in Farmingdale, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1994, 32 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, Citizens Campaign Fund for the Environment reported income of $1.3m and spending of $767k, leaving 39% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $721k to $1.3m (+76%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 72% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Citizens Campaign Fund for the Environment sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 78th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rural Investment to Protect Our Environment ($1.3m), Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail Inc ($1.3m) and Kentucky Association for Environmental Education ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $363k. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 10 employees.