Torch Lake Protection Alliance

Analysis

Torch Lake Protection Alliance is a registered charity in United States, based in Bellaire, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1998, 28 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, Torch Lake Protection Alliance reported income of $361k and spending of $259k, leaving 28% of income unspent that year. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $474k to $361k (-24%), an average of -24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 43% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Torch Lake Protection Alliance sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 65th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Babb Creek Watershed Association Inc ($361k), Los Penaquitos Lagoon Foundation ($361k) and Indigenous Peoples Council for Marine Mammals ($361k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $776k against liabilities of $600, net assets of $775k.