Alaska Trails

Analysis

Alaska Trails is a registered charity in United States, based in Anchorage, AK. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2003, 23 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, Alaska Trails reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.2m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $265k to $1.3m (+375%), an average of +48% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 102%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Alaska Trails 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 80th percentile within AK. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Northern Virginia Travel Baseball League ($1.3m), Long Island Rebels Hockey Association Ltd ($1.3m) and Society for American Baseball Research Inc ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $90k (7.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $555k. At year end it held assets of $460k against liabilities of $41k, net assets of $418k. It reported 30 employees.