Friends Wilderness Center

Analysis

Friends Wilderness Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Harpers Ferry, WV. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1979, 47 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, Friends Wilderness Center reported income of $51k and spending of $48k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $68k to $51k (-26%), an average of -26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Friends Wilderness Center sits at the 19th percentile: it is larger than about 19% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 20th percentile, and in the 18th percentile within WV. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sutton Historical Society Inc ($51k), Manuel Bonilla Ministries Inc ($51k) and Texas Water Utilities Association ($51k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $217k against liabilities of $886, net assets of $216k.