Forest Education and Conservation Foundation

Analysis

Forest Education and Conservation Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Raleigh, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1941, 85 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. 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, Forest Education and Conservation Foundation reported income of $334k and spending of $364k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $417k to $334k (-20%), an average of -5.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 45%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Forest Education and Conservation Foundation sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 62nd percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fair Hill Environmental Foundation Inc ($333k), I Care Corporation ($334k) and Louisiana Clean Fuels Inc ($333k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 70% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $17k, net assets of $1.2m.