Environment News Trust

Analysis

Environment News Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Charlotte, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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 December 2023, Environment News Trust reported income of $63k and spending of $251k, spending 402% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $402k to $63k (-84%), an average of -37% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 108%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Environment News Trust sits at the 27th percentile: it is larger than about 27% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 25th percentile, and in the 23rd percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Edith C Baker School Parent-Teacher Organization ($63k), Onondaga County Public Library ($63k) and Nassau Chapter New York State Assoc of School Business Officials ($63k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $5,409 against liabilities of $0, net assets of $5,409.