Sustainable Fishery Advocates

Analysis

Sustainable Fishery Advocates is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Cruz, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2003, 23 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, Sustainable Fishery Advocates reported income of $4.7m and spending of $4.2m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $4.1m to $4.7m (+15%), an average of +3.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Sustainable Fishery Advocates sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden ($4.7m), Chattahoochee Nature Center Inc ($4.7m) and Heal the Bay ($4.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 79% and program service revenue 20% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $233k (5.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.1m. At year end it held assets of $3.8m against liabilities of $826k, net assets of $3.0m. It reported 29 employees.