Camp Blodgett

Analysis

Camp Blodgett is a registered charity in United States, based in West Olive, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1956, 70 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 (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, Camp Blodgett reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.3m, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $974k to $1.5m (+51%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 83%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Camp Blodgett sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Boys & Girls Club of the Umpqua Valley ($1.5m), Reality Sports Foundation ($1.5m) and Badger Region Volleyball Association Inc ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 71% and program service revenue 2.1% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $670k. It paid $2,500 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $4.5m against liabilities of $140k, net assets of $4.4m. It reported 61 employees.