Alaska Whale Foundation

Analysis

Alaska Whale Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Petersburg, AK. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2020, 6 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, Alaska Whale Foundation reported income of $243k and spending of $312k, spending 128% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $207k to $243k (+18%), an average of +4.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 138%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Alaska Whale Foundation sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within AK. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Weiser River Trail Inc ($243k), Wilderness Volunteers ($243k) and Hyperbaric Vermont Inc ($243k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 87% and program service revenue 13% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $85k (27% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $479k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $479k. It reported 1 employees.