Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve

Analysis

Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve is a registered charity in United States, based in Orlando, FL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve reported income of $185k and spending of $191k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $185k to $185k (+0.1%), an average of +0.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 366%. Over the whole period it spent -177% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 52nd percentile, and in the 56th percentile within FL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Adirondack Forty-Sixers Inc ($185k), Climate First Replacing Oil & Gas ($186k) and Waterlegacy ($185k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.3% of the total. At year end it held assets of $7.4m against liabilities of $2,300, net assets of $7.4m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.