Santa Fe Conservation Trust

Analysis

Santa Fe Conservation Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Fe, NM. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1994, 32 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, Santa Fe Conservation Trust reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.1m, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $781k to $1.3m (+73%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 195%. Over the whole period it spent 44% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Santa Fe Conservation Trust sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within NM. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Loon Preservation Committee ($1.3m), Tijuana Estuary Foundation ($1.4m) and Zero Emissions Transit ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 83% and program service revenue 19% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $127k (12% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $456k. At year end it held assets of $8.2m against liabilities of $272k, net assets of $7.9m. It reported 9 employees.