Sierra County Land Trust

Analysis

Sierra County Land Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Sierra City, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2007, 19 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, Sierra County Land Trust reported income of $215k and spending of $254k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $219k to $215k (-1.6%), an average of -0.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Sierra County Land Trust sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Southwest Iowa Nature Trails Project Inc ($215k), The Friends of the Green Center ($215k) and Solar Freeze Inc ($215k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% and program service revenue 2.9% of the total. At year end it held assets of $446k against liabilities of $272k, net assets of $173k.