Protect Our Aquifer

Analysis

Protect Our Aquifer is a registered charity in United States, based in Memphis, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2019, 7 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. 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, Protect Our Aquifer reported income of $563k and spending of $356k, leaving 37% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $735k to $563k (-23%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 38% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Protect Our Aquifer sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 74th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of the Colorado River Foundation Inc ($563k), National Conservation Foundation ($563k) and The Open Space Council for the St Louis Region ($563k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $185k (52% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $5,323, net assets of $1.2m. It reported 3 employees.