Grace Brethren Retreat Center

Analysis

Grace Brethren Retreat Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Denver, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2004, 22 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Grace Brethren Retreat Center reported income of $1.0m and spending of $921k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $774k to $1.0m (+29%), an average of +6.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 290%. Over the whole period it spent 58% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Grace Brethren Retreat Center sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Middlesex County Recreation Council Kiddie Keep Well Camp ($999k), Kentucky Mountain Mission of Eastern Kentucky Inc ($1.0m) and The Alliance for Floridas National Parks Trust Inc ($999k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 53% and program service revenue 41% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $79k (8.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $326k. At year end it held assets of $5.4m against liabilities of $41k, net assets of $5.4m. It reported 39 employees.