Golden Sands Resource Conservation and Development Council

Analysis

Golden Sands Resource Conservation and Development Council is a registered charity in United States, based in Stevens Point, WI. 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, Golden Sands Resource Conservation and Development Council reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.2m, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $723k to $1.4m (+95%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 75%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Golden Sands Resource Conservation and Development Council sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 84th percentile within WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kokua Hawaii Foundation ($1.4m), Scrap Creative Reuse ($1.4m) and Truro Conservation Trust ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 2.1% and program service revenue 97% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $53k (4.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $897k. At year end it held assets of $702k against liabilities of $100k, net assets of $602k. It reported 36 employees.