Benton County Tourism and Recreation Corporation

Analysis

Benton County Tourism and Recreation Corporation is a registered charity in United States, based in Warsaw, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Benton County Tourism and Recreation Corporation reported income of $158k and spending of $177k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $110k to $158k (+44%), an average of +9.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 68%. Over the whole period it spent 139% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Benton County Tourism and Recreation Corporation sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 46th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Whatcom Family Farmers Education ($158k), Indo-American Senior Citizen Centerof New York Inc ($158k) and West Linn Food Pantry Org ($158k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 50% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $2,073. At year end it held assets of $3,314 against liabilities of $12, net assets of $3,302.

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.