Wellfleet Conservation Trust

Analysis

Wellfleet Conservation Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Wellfleet, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1986, 40 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, Wellfleet Conservation Trust reported income of $151k and spending of $31k, leaving 80% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $69k to $151k (+119%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 6418%. Over the whole period it spent 2.6% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Wellfleet Conservation Trust sits at the 45th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Charles Koiner Center for Urban Farming ($151k), Corvallis Sustainability Coalition ($151k) and Flatsworthy Inc ($151k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $13.7m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $13.7m.