Great Outdoors Fund

Analysis

Great Outdoors Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Vero Beach, FL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. 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, Great Outdoors Fund reported income of $513k and spending of $483k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $249k to $513k (+106%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Great Outdoors Fund sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within FL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Powder Basin Watershed Council ($513k), Virginia Water Environment Association Inc ($513k) and Keep Dalton Whitfield Beautiful Inc ($512k).

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 $142k (29% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $86k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $86k.