Grandfather Mountain Highland Games Inc

Analysis

Grandfather Mountain Highland Games Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Linville, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1968, 58 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. 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, Grandfather Mountain Highland Games Inc reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.7m, spending 134% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $865k to $1.2m (+44%), an average of +9.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 162%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Grandfather Mountain Highland Games Inc sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sonoma Valley Film Society ($1.2m), Vermont Folklife Center ($1.2m) and Jazzarts Charlotte ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.4% and program service revenue 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $262k. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $5,125, net assets of $1.0m. It reported 69 employees.