Gutierrez Wildlife Center

Analysis

Gutierrez Wildlife Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Bitely, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. 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 2022, Gutierrez Wildlife Center reported income of $249k and spending of $303k, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $266k to $249k (-6.5%), an average of -2.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 122% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Gutierrez Wildlife Center sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Arcadia Music Club ($249k), Lombard Historical Society Inc ($249k) and The Foundation for the Spiritual Practice of Creativity ($249k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 84% and program service revenue 1.2% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $48k. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $21k, net assets of $1.8m. It reported 2 employees.