San Juan Preservation Trust

Analysis

San Juan Preservation Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Friday Harbor, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1979, 47 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, San Juan Preservation Trust reported income of $16.0m and spending of $12.5m, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $4.6m to $16.0m (+247%), an average of +36% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 195%. Over the whole period it spent 68% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, San Juan Preservation Trust sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ecology Center ($15.9m), Brookgreen Gardens ($16.0m) and Urban Sustainability Directors Network ($15.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $147k (1.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.2m. At year end it held assets of $67.2m against liabilities of $96k, net assets of $67.1m. It reported 26 employees.