Training Ground

Analysis

Training Ground is a registered charity in United States, based in Colorado SPGS, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Training Ground reported income of $266k and spending of $320k, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $315k to $266k (-16%), an average of -4.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Training Ground sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Someone to Tell It to Inc ($266k), Wylie Show and Sale Fair Board ($266k) and Hamilton House ($266k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% and program service revenue 0.4% of the total. At year end it held assets of $88k against liabilities of $1,677, net assets of $87k. It reported 2 employees.