Belwin Supporting Fund

Analysis

Belwin Supporting Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Afton, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type ii) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Belwin Supporting Fund reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.1m, leaving 20% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.6m to $1.4m (-47%), an average of -15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 178%. 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, Belwin Supporting Fund 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 82nd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fund for Park Avenue New York Inc ($1.4m), Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc ($1.4m) and Soil and Water Conservation Society ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 6.6% of the total. At year end it held assets of $12.4m against liabilities of $1.5m, net assets of $10.9m.