Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund

Analysis

Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Hinesburg, VT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1998, 28 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, Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund reported income of $2.8m and spending of $3.5m, spending 127% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.2m to $2.8m (+28%), an average of +6.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 134%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within VT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Santa Monica Bay Foundation ($2.8m), California Clean Energy Fund ($2.8m) and Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness ($2.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 78% and program service revenue 9.9% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $149k (4.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $37k. At year end it held assets of $21.9m against liabilities of $102k, net assets of $21.8m. It reported 2 employees.