High Desert Partnership

Analysis

High Desert Partnership is a registered charity in United States, based in Burns, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2009, 17 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, High Desert Partnership reported income of $6.4m and spending of $3.2m, leaving 51% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $892k to $6.4m (+618%), an average of +64% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 194%. Over the whole period it spent 77% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, High Desert Partnership sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 94th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Environmental Integrity Project ($6.4m), American Flood Coalition Inc ($6.4m) and Superior Watershed Partnership ($6.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $635k. At year end it held assets of $4.4m against liabilities of $223k, net assets of $4.2m. It reported 20 employees.