Anchorage Waterways Council

Analysis

Anchorage Waterways Council is a registered charity in United States, based in Anchorage, AK. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1987, 39 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, Anchorage Waterways Council reported income of $117k and spending of $128k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $135k to $117k (-14%), an average of -3.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Anchorage Waterways Council sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile, and in the 36th percentile within AK. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Crooked River Weed Management Area ($117k), Home Orchard Education Center ($117k) and Mercury Free Mining Inc ($116k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $69k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $69k.