Blackhawk Ski Club

Analysis

Blackhawk Ski Club is a registered charity in United States, based in Middleton, WI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2002, 24 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 March 2023, Blackhawk Ski Club reported income of $554k and spending of $609k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from March 2020 to March 2023, income grew from $363k to $554k (+53%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2021, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Blackhawk Ski Club sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lanikai Athletic Club ($554k), Prospect Mountain Association Inc ($554k) and Nantucket Ice Company Inc ($554k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 3.1% and program service revenue 97% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $66k. At year end it held assets of $644k against liabilities of $136k, net assets of $509k. It reported 2 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.