Amazon Center for Environmental Education Reseach Foundation

Analysis

Amazon Center for Environmental Education Reseach Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Unionville, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, Amazon Center for Environmental Education Reseach Foundation reported income of $109k and spending of $232k, spending 213% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $238k to $109k (-54%), an average of -18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 99%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Amazon Center for Environmental Education Reseach Foundation sits at the 36th percentile: it is larger than about 36% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile, and in the 37th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include A Bridge for Africa Foundation ($109k), Cry Cameroon USA ($109k) and Bakhita Charities for Southern Africa Inc ($109k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 0.4% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $79k. At year end it held assets of $210k against liabilities of $13k, net assets of $197k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.