Blue Ridge Conservancy

Analysis

Blue Ridge Conservancy is a registered charity in United States, based in Boone, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2000, 26 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, Blue Ridge Conservancy reported income of $4.8m and spending of $4.3m, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $5.4m to $4.8m (-12%), an average of -3.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 77%. Over the whole period it spent 62% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Blue Ridge Conservancy 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 93rd percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ecology Center Inc ($4.8m), Pacific Whale Foundation ($4.8m) and Soar Inc ($4.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $111k (2.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $619k. At year end it held assets of $21.4m against liabilities of $1.1m, net assets of $20.3m. It reported 10 employees.