Mountain Goat Trail Alliance

Analysis

Mountain Goat Trail Alliance is a registered charity in United States, based in Monteagle, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2008, 18 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 (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Mountain Goat Trail Alliance reported income of $744k and spending of $185k, leaving 75% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $318k to $744k (+134%), an average of +24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 334%. Over the whole period it spent 29% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Mountain Goat Trail Alliance sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cascades Park Foundation ($743k), Webster Community Rink Association ($744k) and Reno Bike Project Inc ($743k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 77% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $55k (30% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $12.7m against liabilities of $9.2m, net assets of $3.4m. It reported 1 employees.