Wilderness Trail Inc

Analysis

Wilderness Trail Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Waynesville, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1990, 36 years ago. 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, Wilderness Trail Inc reported income of $234k and spending of $265k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $315k to $234k (-26%), an average of -7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 115%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Wilderness Trail Inc sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 55th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Warfighter Scuba ($234k), Arkansas Good Roads Transportation Council Inc ($234k) and Ucc XI Inc ($233k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 45% and program service revenue 54% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $67k (25% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $21k. At year end it held assets of $888k against liabilities of $153k, net assets of $735k. It reported 12 employees.