Save the Dunes Conservation Fund Inc

Analysis

Save the Dunes Conservation Fund Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Michigan City, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1994, 32 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 2023, Save the Dunes Conservation Fund Inc reported income of $817k and spending of $768k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $545k to $817k (+50%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Save the Dunes Conservation Fund Inc sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Upper White River Watershed Alliance Inc ($816k), Western States Projects Training Fund ($817k) and Memphremagog Watershed Association ($816k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $79k (10% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $2.5m against liabilities of $95k, net assets of $2.4m. It reported 7 employees.