Burn Design Lab

Analysis

Burn Design Lab is a registered charity in United States, based in Vashon, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2011, 15 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, Burn Design Lab reported income of $580k and spending of $530k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $124k to $580k (+368%), an average of +47% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 660%. Over the whole period it spent 68% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Burn Design Lab sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 71st percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rocky Mountain Wild Incorporated ($580k), Make a Change World Inc ($581k) and Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative ($579k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 71% and program service revenue 28% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $291k. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $443, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 11 employees.