Nickel Plate Trail Inc

Analysis

Nickel Plate Trail Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Peru, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2004, 22 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 (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, Nickel Plate Trail Inc reported income of $762k and spending of $134k, leaving 82% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $29k to $762k (+2490%), an average of +126% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 579%. Over the whole period it spent 62% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Nickel Plate Trail Inc sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rhea County Community Center ($762k), Audubon Recreation Association ($762k) and Polaris Soccer Club Inc ($762k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.4m.