Benefit for the Basin

Analysis

Benefit for the Basin is a registered charity in United States, based in Klamath Falls, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2015, 11 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 December 2021, Benefit for the Basin reported income of $171k and spending of $140k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2021, income grew from $130k to $171k (+31%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 344%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Benefit for the Basin sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile, and in the 50th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rocky Mountain Lacrosse Academy ($171k), Alamo Area Aquatic Association ($171k) and Splashforward ($171k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2021, revenue came from contributions and grants 38% and program service revenue 60% of the total. At year end it held assets of $97k against liabilities of $1,951, net assets of $95k.