Cawaco Resource Conservation and Development Area

Analysis

Cawaco Resource Conservation and Development Area is a registered charity in United States, based in Birmingham, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1996, 30 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 September 2023, Cawaco Resource Conservation and Development Area reported income of $3.0m and spending of $2.8m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from September 2020 to September 2023, income grew from $836k to $3.0m (+253%), an average of +52% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2023, when income rose by 109%. 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, Cawaco Resource Conservation and Development Area sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sust Aina Ble Molokai ($2.9m), Athens Land Trust Inc ($3.0m) and International Union of Forest Research Organizations ($2.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 89% and program service revenue 9.2% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $245k. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $249k, net assets of $1.2m. It reported 5 employees.