California Farmland Trust

Analysis

California Farmland Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Elk Grove, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 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, California Farmland Trust reported income of $1.5m and spending of $860k, leaving 44% of income unspent that year. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income fell from $1.7m to $1.5m (-7.8%), an average of -1.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 69%. Over the whole period it spent 46% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, California Farmland Trust sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ecological Life Systems Institute Incorporated ($1.5m), Guadalupe River Park Conservancy ($1.5m) and Harvard Conservation Trust ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 20% and program service revenue 34% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $135k (16% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $208k. At year end it held assets of $28.0m against liabilities of $20.3m, net assets of $7.8m. It reported 7 employees.