The Conservation Alliance

Analysis

The Conservation Alliance is a registered charity in United States, based in Windsor, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, The Conservation Alliance reported income of $2.0m and spending of $3.7m, spending 189% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $3.4m to $2.0m (-42%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Conservation Alliance sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include National Christian Charitable Foundation Inc ($1.9m), Alexander Childrens Foundation Incorporated ($2.0m) and Northern Santa Barbara County United Way Inc ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 143% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $882k. At year end it held assets of $5.8m against liabilities of $645k, net assets of $5.1m. It reported 9 employees.