Protect Our Rivers

Analysis

Protect Our Rivers is a registered charity in United States, based in Lakewood, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2021, 5 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, Protect Our Rivers reported income of $130k and spending of $114k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $88k to $130k (+48%), an average of +48% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 77% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Protect Our Rivers sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile, and in the 40th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include 15 Minute Field Trips ($130k), Friends of Lake Monroe Inc ($130k) and Richmond Land Trust Inc State Road ($130k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 102% of the total. At year end it held assets of $58k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $58k.