Audubon Community Nature Center

Analysis

Audubon Community Nature Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Jamestown, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1961, 65 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending September 2023, Audubon Community Nature Center reported income of $776k and spending of $796k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $707k to $776k (+9.7%), an average of +2.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2020, when income rose by 15%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Audubon Community Nature Center sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include BT Farms Foundation Inc ($776k), Johnson Creek Watershed Association ($777k) and Clean Tahoe Program ($776k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 53% and program service revenue 34% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $75k (9.4% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $2.9m against liabilities of $100k, net assets of $2.8m. It reported 20 employees.