Big Island Resource Conservation and Development Council

Analysis

Big Island Resource Conservation and Development Council is a registered charity in United States, based in Hilo, HI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1994, 32 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, Big Island Resource Conservation and Development Council reported income of $294k and spending of $316k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $336k to $294k (-13%), an average of -3.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 83%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Big Island Resource Conservation and Development Council sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 60th percentile within HI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dover Land Conservation Trust ($293k), Physicians for Social Responsibility Inc ($294k) and Project Big Wood a Nonprofit Corporation ($293k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 87% and program service revenue 13% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $19k. At year end it held assets of $283k against liabilities of $1,071, net assets of $282k. It reported 1 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.