Amazon Aid Foundation

Analysis

Amazon Aid Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Richmond, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2010, 16 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 September 2023, Amazon Aid Foundation reported income of $153k and spending of $270k, spending 177% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $225k to $153k (-32%), an average of -9.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 266%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Amazon Aid Foundation sits at the 45th percentile: it is larger than about 45% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 47th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Blessed Earth Inc ($152k), Affta Fisheries Fund ($153k) and Save the Wood Clean the Air ($152k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $496k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $496k.