Bluebonnet Youth Ranch

Analysis

Bluebonnet Youth Ranch is a registered charity in United States, based in Yoakum, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1968, 58 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Bluebonnet Youth Ranch reported income of $596k and spending of $801k, spending 134% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $805k to $596k (-26%), an average of -7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 68%. Over the whole period it spent 156% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Bluebonnet Youth Ranch sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 77th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Asbury House Child Enrichment Center ($596k), Help for Abused Partners ($596k) and Plumas Sierra Junior Livestock Auction ($596k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 49% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $64k. At year end it held assets of $5.3m against liabilities of $14k, net assets of $5.3m. It reported 3 employees.