Hackensack Riverkeeper Inc

Analysis

Hackensack Riverkeeper Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Hackensack, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1997, 29 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, Hackensack Riverkeeper Inc reported income of $848k and spending of $778k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $737k to $848k (+15%), an average of +3.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Hackensack Riverkeeper Inc sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 81st percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Sustainable Living Center ($848k), Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions ($849k) and Crooked River Watershed Council ($847k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 54% and program service revenue 29% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $78k (10% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $396k. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $26k, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 46 employees.