Wildacres Retreat Foundation

Analysis

Wildacres Retreat Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Charlotte, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Wildacres Retreat Foundation reported income of $438k and spending of $274k, leaving 38% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $946k to $438k (-54%), an average of -18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 215%. Over the whole period it spent 78% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Wildacres Retreat Foundation sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Texas Fallen Officer Foundation ($438k), Community Foundation of Jo Daviess County ($438k) and Girls on the Run Hudson Valley Inc ($438k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.1% of the total. At year end it held assets of $5.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $5.1m.