Friends of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park

Analysis

Friends of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is a registered charity in United States, based in Chattanooga, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1987, 39 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 (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 of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park reported income of $359k and spending of $282k, leaving 21% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $268k to $359k (+34%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 102%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Friends of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival ($359k), International Society for Environmental Epidemiology ($359k) and North Carolina Railway Museum Inc ($359k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $77k (27% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $34k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $667, net assets of $1.8m. It reported 2 employees.