Cumberland Valley Rails to Trails Council Inc

Analysis

Cumberland Valley Rails to Trails Council Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Shippensburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. 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 September 2023, Cumberland Valley Rails to Trails Council Inc reported income of $207k and spending of $234k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $62k to $207k (+237%), an average of +35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2023, when income rose by 98%. Over the whole period it spent 130% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Cumberland Valley Rails to Trails Council Inc sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Upper Savannah Land Trust ($207k), Woodie Wheaton Land Trust ($207k) and Friends of Myakka River Inc ($207k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% of the total. At year end it held assets of $5.3m against liabilities of $342k, net assets of $5.0m.

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.