Global Conservation

Analysis

Global Conservation is a registered charity in United States, based in Portola Vally, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2016, 10 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, Global Conservation reported income of $4.3m and spending of $4.4m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.5m to $4.3m (+188%), an average of +30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 121%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Global Conservation sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of the Mississippi River ($4.3m), Watershed Conservation Resource Center ($4.3m) and Composite Recycling Technology Center ($4.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $180k (4.1% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $169k against liabilities of $32k, net assets of $138k. It reported 1 employees.