500 Year Forest Foundation

Analysis

500 Year Forest Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Lynchburg, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1998, 28 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 September 2023, 500 Year Forest Foundation reported income of $124k and spending of $68k, leaving 46% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from September 2020 to September 2023, income fell from $532k to $124k (-77%), an average of -38% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 151%. Over the whole period it spent 24% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, 500 Year Forest Foundation sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile, and in the 42nd percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Master Gardener Foundation of King County ($124k), The Garden Club of Allegheny County ($124k) and Ecology Action of Texas Inc ($124k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $40k. At year end it held assets of $685k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $685k. It reported 1 employees.