Save the Worlds Rivers

Analysis

Save the Worlds Rivers is a registered charity in United States, based in Boulder, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2015, 11 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, Save the Worlds Rivers reported income of $76k and spending of $131k, spending 171% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $217k to $76k (-65%), an average of -41% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Save the Worlds Rivers sits at the 29th percentile: it is larger than about 29% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 30th percentile, and in the 26th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Narrow River Preservation Association Inc ($76k), Maryland State Game and Fish Protective Association Inc ($76k) and Garden Club Federation of Pennsylvania ($76k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $48k against liabilities of $30k, net assets of $18k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.