Friends of the Rio Grande Nature Center

Analysis

Friends of the Rio Grande Nature Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Albuquerque, NM. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1985, 41 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 September 2023, Friends of the Rio Grande Nature Center reported income of $95k and spending of $91k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $137k to $95k (-31%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 131%. Over the whole period it spent 78% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Friends of the Rio Grande Nature Center sits at the 34th percentile: it is larger than about 34% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile, and in the 31st percentile within NM. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Natural Resource Education Center Inc ($95k), Pine Hollow Arboretum ($95k) and Clean Streams Rivers and Lakes ($95k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 54% and program service revenue 5.2% of the total. At year end it held assets of $331k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $331k.