Community Environmental Council Inc

Analysis

Community Environmental Council Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Barbara, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1970, 56 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, Community Environmental Council Inc reported income of $4.6m and spending of $4.0m, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.8m to $4.6m (+160%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 65%. Over the whole period it spent 77% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Community Environmental Council Inc sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Aspetuck Land Trust Inc ($4.6m), Future Fund Endowment Inc ($4.6m) and Schuylkill River Greenway Assn ($4.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% and program service revenue 0.3% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $181k (4.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.7m. It paid $64k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $10.9m against liabilities of $3.6m, net assets of $7.3m. It reported 35 employees.