West Virginia Highlands Conservancy

Analysis

West Virginia Highlands Conservancy is a registered charity in United States, based in Nitro, WV. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1980, 46 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy reported income of $195k and spending of $270k, spending 139% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $204k to $195k (-4.8%), an average of -1.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 367%. Over the whole period it spent 66% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 51st percentile within WV. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Robertson County Historical Society ($194k), Jasper Pickett Foundation Inc ($195k) and Boy Scouts of America ($194k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 69% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $59k. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $2,900, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 3 employees.