Big City Mountaineers Inc

Analysis

Big City Mountaineers Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Arvada, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1990, 36 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Big City Mountaineers Inc reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.3m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.3m (+17%), an average of +3.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Big City Mountaineers Inc sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 81st percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sonoma County Regional Parks Foundation ($1.3m), Westport Soccer Association Inc ($1.3m) and Hawaii Rush Soccer Club ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% and program service revenue 0.8% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $105k (8.1% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $531k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $70k, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 10 employees.