Citizens for Balanced Use

Analysis

Citizens for Balanced Use is a registered charity in United States, based in Gallatin Gtwy, MT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2006, 20 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 for Balanced Use reported income of $118k and spending of $90k, leaving 23% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $164k to $118k (-28%), an average of -8.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 113%. 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, Citizens for Balanced Use sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile, and in the 39th percentile within MT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Killbuck Watershed Land Trust ($118k), Friends of Dick Proenneke and Lake Clark National Park ($118k) and Proud Louisiana LLC ($118k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 80% of the total. At year end it held assets of $165k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $165k.