Gunnison Legacy Fund

Analysis

Gunnison Legacy Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Gunnison, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1998, 28 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, Gunnison Legacy Fund reported income of $2.1m and spending of $2.2m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $571k to $2.1m (+274%), an average of +39% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 4839%. Over the whole period it spent 19% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Gunnison Legacy Fund sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lake County Umbrella Watershed Council ($2.1m), Gnaw Bone Camp Nature Preserve Inc ($2.1m) and Our United Villages ($2.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 31% and program service revenue 59% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $439k. At year end it held assets of $28.5m against liabilities of $72k, net assets of $28.4m. It reported 11 employees.