Yampa Valley Sustainability Council

Analysis

Yampa Valley Sustainability Council is a registered charity in United States, based in Steamboat SPR, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Yampa Valley Sustainability Council reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.1m, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $398k to $1.2m (+207%), an average of +32% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 63%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Yampa Valley Sustainability Council sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 80th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wild Rivers Conservancy of the St Croix & Namekagon ($1.2m), Southeast Alaska Conservation Council Inc-Seacc ($1.2m) and Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association Inc ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 65% and program service revenue 35% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $113k (10% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $559k. At year end it held assets of $585k against liabilities of $9,692, net assets of $575k. It reported 23 employees.