Grand Staircase Escalante Partners Inc

Analysis

Grand Staircase Escalante Partners Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Kanab, UT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2004, 22 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, Grand Staircase Escalante Partners Inc reported income of $694k and spending of $779k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $914k to $694k (-24%), an average of -6.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 20%. 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, Grand Staircase Escalante Partners Inc sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within UT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cloud Forest Fund ($693k), Florida Water Environment Association Inc ($694k) and Sustainable Forest Futures Inc ($693k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $98k (13% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $320k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $236k, net assets of $995k. It reported 8 employees.