Adventure Cycling Association

Analysis

Adventure Cycling Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Missoula, MT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1975, 51 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, Adventure Cycling Association reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.2m, spending 82% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from September 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $6.0m to $1.5m (-75%), an average of -24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 74%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Adventure Cycling Association sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within MT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St Lucie County Fair Association Inc ($1.5m), Chehalem Center Association ($1.5m) and Bel Air Recreation Committee Inc ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 68% and program service revenue 24% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $126k (10% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $413k. At year end it held assets of $5.1m against liabilities of $1.3m, net assets of $3.8m. It reported 114 employees.