Willamette Cascades Community Land Trust

Analysis

Willamette Cascades Community Land Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Dexter, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1991, 35 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. 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, Willamette Cascades Community Land Trust reported income of $282k and spending of $473k, spending 168% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $396k to $282k (-29%), an average of -8.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 28%. 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, Willamette Cascades Community Land Trust sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 60th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Environmental Protection in the Caribbean Incorporated ($282k), Urban Seeds Inc ($282k) and Cheney Lake Watershed Inc ($281k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 8.4% and program service revenue 84% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $201k. At year end it held assets of $149k against liabilities of $221k, net assets of -$72k. It reported 14 employees.