Van Buren Youth Camp Inc

Analysis

Van Buren Youth Camp Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Bloomingdale, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1978, 48 years ago. Its declared purposes cover youth development, which this site groups under children and youth development. 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, Van Buren Youth Camp Inc reported income of $494k and spending of $418k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $302k to $494k (+63%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 207%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 14,332 United States charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Van Buren Youth Camp Inc sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 70th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Youth Endowment for Activities Foundation Inc ($493k), Working Theory Farm ($494k) and Open Opportunities Inc ($493k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 26% and program service revenue 69% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $46k (11% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $120k. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $18k, net assets of $1.3m. It reported 32 employees.