Golden Hills Resource Conservation and Development Area

Analysis

Golden Hills Resource Conservation and Development Area is a registered charity in United States, based in Oakland, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1987, 39 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 Hills Resource Conservation and Development Area reported income of $1.0m and spending of $1.1m, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $588k to $1.0m (+72%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 114%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Golden Hills Resource Conservation and Development Area sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rios to Rivers ($1.0m), Pennenvironment Research and Policy Center ($1.0m) and Anne Arundel County Watershed Stewards Academy Inc ($1.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 8.7% and program service revenue 90% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $75k (6.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $316k. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $130k, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 13 employees.