Coastal Conservation and Research

Analysis

Coastal Conservation and Research is a registered charity in United States, based in Moss Landing, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2001, 25 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, Coastal Conservation and Research reported income of $614k and spending of $916k, spending 149% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $976k to $614k (-37%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 68%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Coastal Conservation and Research sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 75th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Berkeley Earth Inc ($614k), Root-Pike Watershed Initiative Network Inc ($616k) and Pennsylvania Water Environment Association ($614k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $56k. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 1 employees.