Adventure Travel Conservation Fund

Analysis

Adventure Travel Conservation Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Monroe, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2017, 9 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 (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, Adventure Travel Conservation Fund reported income of $230k and spending of $149k, leaving 35% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $328k to $230k (-30%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 74% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Adventure Travel Conservation Fund sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 54th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Professionals Inc ($230k), Pontifical University of the Holy Cross Foundation ($230k) and Colombian Volunteer Ladies Inc ($230k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $85k (57% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $409k against liabilities of $164k, net assets of $246k.