Mountain Thrift Shoppe

Analysis

Mountain Thrift Shoppe is a registered charity in United States, based in Blue Jay, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Mountain Thrift Shoppe reported income of $250k and spending of $224k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $259k to $250k (-3.6%), an average of -0.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Mountain Thrift Shoppe sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile, and in the 61st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St Philips Preservation and Endowment Foundation Inc ($250k), Buffalo Island Community Foundation ($250k) and Tibetan Childrens Education Foundation ($250k).

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 $154k against liabilities of -$2,500, net assets of $156k.