Center for Watershed Protection

Analysis

Center for Watershed Protection is a registered charity in United States, based in Fulton, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1993, 33 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, Center for Watershed Protection reported income of $3.3m and spending of $3.0m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $3.9m to $3.3m (-16%), an average of -4.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Center for Watershed Protection sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include New England Grassroots Environment Fund Inc ($3.2m), Massachusetts Horticultural Society ($3.3m) and New Mexico Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts ($3.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 27% and program service revenue 70% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $222k (7.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.4m. At year end it held assets of $2.6m against liabilities of $570k, net assets of $2.0m. It reported 29 employees.