Black Hills Raptor Center

Analysis

Black Hills Raptor Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Caputa, SD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animal-related, which this site groups under animals. 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, Black Hills Raptor Center reported income of $254k and spending of $202k, leaving 20% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $185k to $254k (+37%), an average of +8.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 180%. Over the whole period it spent 68% of the income it received.

Among 14,470 United States charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Black Hills Raptor Center sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 57th percentile within SD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Salem Humane Society Inc ($254k), South Poll Grass Cattle Association ($254k) and Golden Retriever Rescue of Wisconsin ($253k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $649k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $649k.