Bonapartes Retreat

Analysis

Bonapartes Retreat is a registered charity in United States, based in Nashville, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animal-related, which this site groups under animals. The IRS classifies it as a organisation supporting a government-owned college or university under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Bonapartes Retreat reported income of $1.1m and spending of $322k, leaving 71% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $338k to $1.1m (+224%), an average of +34% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 150%. Over the whole period it spent 52% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Bonapartes Retreat sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include American Fondouk Maintenance Committee Inc ($1.1m), Delaware Zoological Society Inc ($1.1m) and Monterey Bay Salmon & Trout Project ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% and program service revenue 0.2% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $30k (9.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $98k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $3,911, net assets of $1.2m. It reported 13 employees.