Adirondack Council Inc

Analysis

Adirondack Council Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Elizabethtown, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1978, 48 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 June 2024, Adirondack Council Inc reported income of $2.3m and spending of $2.8m, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income fell from $2.5m to $2.3m (-6.4%), an average of -1.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Adirondack Council Inc sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Nokuse Education Inc ($2.3m), Sustainable Harvest International ($2.3m) and Washington Farmland Trust ($2.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $439k (16% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.0m. At year end it held assets of $10.8m against liabilities of $461k, net assets of $10.4m. It reported 24 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.