Soil Science Society of America Inc

Analysis

Soil Science Society of America Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Fitchburg, WI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1961, 65 years ago. 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, Soil Science Society of America Inc reported income of $3.3m and spending of $3.2m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $4.1m to $3.3m (-21%), an average of -5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Soil Science Society of America Inc sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Columbia Memorial Hospital Foundation ($3.3m), John Jermain Memorial Library ($3.3m) and Minnesota Indian Womens Resource Center ($3.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 83% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $306k (9.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.4m. At year end it held assets of $5.1m against liabilities of $443k, net assets of $4.7m.