Sahara Conservation Fund

Analysis

Sahara Conservation Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Louis, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2009, 17 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, Sahara Conservation Fund reported income of $2.1m and spending of $2.5m, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $2.1m (+51%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 92%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Sahara Conservation Fund sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Environmental Research Institute of the States ($2.1m), Abraham Lincoln Memorial Garden Foundation ($2.1m) and San Benito Agricultural Land Trust ($2.1m).

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 $1.4m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.4m.