Summit Adventure

Analysis

Summit Adventure is a registered charity in United States, based in Bass Lake, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. 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, Summit Adventure reported income of $88k and spending of $117k, spending 134% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $278k to $88k (-68%), an average of -44% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Summit Adventure sits at the 32nd percentile: it is larger than about 32% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 33rd percentile, and in the 36th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tennessee Naturalist Program ($88k), Southern Environmental Enforcement Training Fund ($88k) and Kettle Moraine Garden Club Inc ($88k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 46% and program service revenue 54% of the total. At year end it held assets of $62k against liabilities of $38k, net assets of $24k.