Southeast & East Central Recycling Association

Analysis

Southeast & East Central Recycling Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Walsenburg, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1996, 30 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, Southeast & East Central Recycling Association reported income of $276k and spending of $423k, spending 153% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $209k to $276k (+32%), an average of +7.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 110%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Southeast & East Central Recycling Association sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 57th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful ($276k), Saratoga County Foundation Inc ($277k) and Salmon Defense ($276k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 55% and program service revenue 35% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $212k. At year end it held assets of $467k against liabilities of $82k, net assets of $385k. It reported 11 employees.