Pacific Whale Foundation

Analysis

Pacific Whale Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Wailuku, HI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1985, 41 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, Pacific Whale Foundation reported income of $4.8m and spending of $4.2m, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.8m to $4.8m (+163%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 89%. 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, Pacific Whale Foundation 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 93rd percentile within HI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Blue Ridge Conservancy ($4.8m), Clean Air Council ($4.8m) and Ecology Center Inc ($4.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 69% and program service revenue 2.1% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.5m. At year end it held assets of $8.6m against liabilities of $5.4m, net assets of $3.2m. It reported 36 employees.