Boulder County Parks and Open Space Foundation

Analysis

Boulder County Parks and Open Space Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Hygiene, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type i) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Boulder County Parks and Open Space Foundation reported income of $146k and spending of $870k, spending 597% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $187k to $146k (-22%), an average of -6.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 99%. Over the whole period it spent 271% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Boulder County Parks and Open Space Foundation sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile, and in the 43rd percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of PPSC ($146k), Lituanica Athletic Club NFP ($146k) and Muskego Warriors Youth Baseball ($146k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 89% and program service revenue 1.5% of the total. At year end it held assets of $634k against liabilities of $5,980, net assets of $628k.

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.