Detroit Mountain Recreation Area Inc

Analysis

Detroit Mountain Recreation Area Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Detroit Lakes, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2011, 15 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 April 2023, Detroit Mountain Recreation Area Inc reported income of $2.6m and spending of $2.4m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from April 2020 to April 2023, income grew from $2.4m to $2.6m (+7.9%), an average of +2.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2021, when income rose by 185%. Over the whole period it spent 60% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Detroit Mountain Recreation Area Inc sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Volusia County Fair Association Inc ($2.6m), Canton Soccer Club ($2.6m) and Greensboro Sports Foundation ($2.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending April 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.9% and program service revenue 92% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $76k (3.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $991k. At year end it held assets of $3.6m against liabilities of $825k, net assets of $2.8m.