Backcountry Medical Guides

Analysis

Backcountry Medical Guides is a registered charity in United States, based in Bellingham, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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, Backcountry Medical Guides reported income of $479k and spending of $457k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $263k to $479k (+82%), an average of +35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Backcountry Medical Guides sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Farm and City ($479k), Canopy Atlanta ($479k) and Charter Facility Solutions ($479k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 2.4% and program service revenue 97% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $52k (11% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $207k. At year end it held assets of $49k against liabilities of $22k, net assets of $28k. It reported 25 employees.