Rachel Carson Trails Conservancy

Analysis

Rachel Carson Trails Conservancy is a registered charity in United States, based in Wexford, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1993, 33 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, Rachel Carson Trails Conservancy reported income of $231k and spending of $138k, leaving 40% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $211k to $231k (+9.1%), an average of +2.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 93%. Over the whole period it spent 54% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Rachel Carson Trails Conservancy sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 54th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rush Lake Improvement Association ($230k), Buckeye Outdoors Youth Education and Shooting Center Inc ($231k) and True Nature Society ($230k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 36% and program service revenue 60% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.0m against liabilities of $4, net assets of $1.0m.