Hill Country Transit District

Analysis

Hill Country Transit District is a registered charity in United States, based in Belton, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public and societal benefit, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. The IRS classifies it as a governmental unit under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Hill Country Transit District reported income of $11.6m and spending of $12.3m, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $9.4m to $11.6m (+24%), an average of +5.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Hill Country Transit District sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dayspring Health Inc ($11.6m), New Braunfels Christian Academy Inc ($11.7m) and Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights ($11.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 69% and program service revenue 20% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $6.4m. At year end it held assets of $20.9m against liabilities of $5.6m, net assets of $15.3m. It reported 219 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.