Blue Ridge Wildlife Center

Analysis

Blue Ridge Wildlife Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Boyce, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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 June 2024, Blue Ridge Wildlife Center reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.4m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $832k to $1.4m (+70%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 89%. Over the whole period it spent 56% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Blue Ridge Wildlife Center sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include American Friends of Kishorit Inc ($1.4m), United Way of Licking County Ohio Inc ($1.4m) and American Osteopathic Colleges of Opthalmology and Otolaryngology ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 82% and program service revenue 3.3% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $81k (5.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $726k. At year end it held assets of $6.5m against liabilities of $169k, net assets of $6.4m. It reported 17 employees.