High Pastures Christian Retreat Center Inc

Analysis

High Pastures Christian Retreat Center Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Burnsville, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1969, 57 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, High Pastures Christian Retreat Center Inc reported income of $473k and spending of $576k, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $277k to $473k (+71%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 95%. Over the whole period it spent 141% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, High Pastures Christian Retreat Center Inc 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 69th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Belleville Community Health Club ($473k), American Society of Law Medicine & Ethics Inc ($473k) and Cobb Community Alliance to Prevent Substance Abuse ($473k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.7% and program service revenue 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $201k (35% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $109k, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 11 employees.

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.