Wilderness Works Inc

Analysis

Wilderness Works Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Atlanta, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2004, 22 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, Wilderness Works Inc reported income of $370k and spending of $362k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $483k to $370k (-23%), an average of -6.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 14,332 United States charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Wilderness Works Inc sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include We Can Now Inc ($369k), Girls on the Run of Hamilton County Inc ($370k) and Be the Neighbor ($369k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $51k (14% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $55k. It paid $29k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $262k against liabilities of $1,038, net assets of $261k.