Cub Consumer Education and Researchfund

Analysis

Cub Consumer Education and Researchfund is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 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, Cub Consumer Education and Researchfund reported income of $1.7m and spending of $2.5m, spending 143% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.6m to $1.7m (-34%), an average of -10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Cub Consumer Education and Researchfund sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation ($1.7m), Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc ($1.7m) and Aldo Leopold Nature Center Inc ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $502k against liabilities of $109k, net assets of $393k.