Alachua Conservation Trust Incorporated

Analysis

Alachua Conservation Trust Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Gainesville, FL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1989, 37 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, Alachua Conservation Trust Incorporated reported income of $3.4m and spending of $2.6m, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.5m to $3.4m (+37%), an average of +8.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 95%. Over the whole period it spent 43% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Alachua Conservation Trust Incorporated sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within FL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance Inc ($3.4m), San Dieguito River Valley Land Conservancy ($3.4m) and Heart of the Rockies Foundation ($3.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% and program service revenue 5.7% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $90k (3.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $34.1m against liabilities of $2.1m, net assets of $32.0m. It reported 27 employees.