Keep the Reservoir Beautiful

Analysis

Keep the Reservoir Beautiful is a registered charity in United States, based in Brandon, MS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 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 (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 2021, Keep the Reservoir Beautiful reported income of $242k and spending of $238k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2021, income grew from $219k to $242k (+10%), an average of +5.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Keep the Reservoir Beautiful sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile, and in the 60th percentile within MS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of the Delaware Canal Inc ($242k), Women for Conservation ($242k) and Cazenovia Lake Association Inc ($242k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2021, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% and program service revenue 9.6% of the total. At year end it held assets of $33k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $33k.