St Simons Land Trust

Analysis

St Simons Land Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in St Simons Is, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2001, 25 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, St Simons Land Trust reported income of $8.1m and spending of $1.2m, leaving 86% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.8m to $8.1m (+343%), an average of +45% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 156%. Over the whole period it spent 25% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, St Simons Land Trust sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Inter Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources Utd St ($8.0m), Resource Media a Nonprofit Corporation ($8.1m) and Environmental Research and ($8.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $586k. At year end it held assets of $69.7m against liabilities of $205k, net assets of $69.5m. It reported 9 employees.