Calypso Farm and Ecology Center

Analysis

Calypso Farm and Ecology Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Ester, AK. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Calypso Farm and Ecology Center reported income of $815k and spending of $689k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $506k to $815k (+61%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 46%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Calypso Farm and Ecology Center sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within AK. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mariposa Dr Foundation ($815k), FPCRC Inc ($815k) and Formation Project ($815k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 68% and program service revenue 28% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $178k (26% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $187k. At year end it held assets of $670k against liabilities of $12k, net assets of $657k. It reported 31 employees.