Protect Our Winters

Analysis

Protect Our Winters is a registered charity in United States, based in Boulder, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Protect Our Winters reported income of $6.3m and spending of $5.9m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $3.0m to $6.3m (+108%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 90%. Over the whole period it spent 81% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Protect Our Winters sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 94th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bayou Land Conservancy ($6.3m), Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation Inc ($6.3m) and Central Indiana Land Trust Incorporated ($6.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $433k (7.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.9m. At year end it held assets of $6.3m against liabilities of $202k, net assets of $6.1m. It reported 34 employees.