Ketcha Outdoors

Analysis

Ketcha Outdoors is a registered charity in United States, based in Scarborough, ME. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover youth development, which this site groups under children and youth development. 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, Ketcha Outdoors reported income of $2.3m and spending of $2.3m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.6m to $2.3m (+45%), an average of +9.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 91%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 14,332 United States charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Ketcha Outdoors 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 87th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within ME. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Horizons for Youth ($2.3m), Boy Scouts of America ($2.3m) and KVC Endowment Inc ($2.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 14% and program service revenue 63% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $94k (4.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.5m. At year end it held assets of $2.5m against liabilities of $262k, net assets of $2.2m. It reported 132 employees.