Agrarian Land Trust

Analysis

Agrarian Land Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in S Royalton, VT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Agrarian Land Trust reported income of $710k and spending of $664k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $146k to $710k (+386%), an average of +37% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 293%. Over the whole period it spent 45% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Agrarian Land Trust sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within VT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Strengthening Rural Families ($710k), Lincoln Park Children and Families Collaborative ($710k) and Nourish Knoxville ($710k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $31k (4.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $274k. At year end it held assets of $3.8m against liabilities of $308k, net assets of $3.4m. It reported 14 employees.