Friends of Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge Complex

Analysis

Friends of Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge Complex is a registered charity in United States, based in Olympia, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animal-related, which this site groups under animals. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Friends of Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge Complex reported income of $100k and spending of $102k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $505k to $100k (-80%), an average of -33% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 87%. Over the whole period it spent 44% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Friends of Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge Complex 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 37th percentile, and in the 33rd percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Love Grows Love ($100k), Dachshunds and Friends Rescue ($100k) and Paws Critter Crossing ($100k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 40% of the total. At year end it held assets of $594k against liabilities of $33k, net assets of $561k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.