Camp Beech Cliff

Analysis

Camp Beech Cliff is a registered charity in United States, based in Mount Desert, ME. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. 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, Camp Beech Cliff reported income of $1.8m and spending of $2.4m, spending 137% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $5.9m to $1.8m (-70%), an average of -26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 441%. Over the whole period it spent 45% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Camp Beech Cliff sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within ME. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gaston Aquatics Inc ($1.8m), Special Olympics Utah Inc ($1.8m) and Friends of Tryon Creek Park ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 23% and program service revenue 35% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $147k (6.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $805k. At year end it held assets of $41.7m against liabilities of $82k, net assets of $41.7m. It reported 84 employees.