Bismarck Recreation Council

Analysis

Bismarck Recreation Council is a registered charity in United States, based in Bismarck, ND. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1984, 42 years ago. 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, Bismarck Recreation Council reported income of $1.0m and spending of $391k, leaving 61% of income unspent that year. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.0m to $1.0m (-0.3%), an average of -0.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 141%. Over the whole period it spent 77% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Bismarck Recreation Council sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within ND. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Visual Art Institute ($1.0m), Lupus and Allied Diseases Association Inc ($1.0m) and In the Pines Inc ($1.0m).

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 $1.8m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.8m.