Bass Pro Shops & Cabelas Outdoor Fund

Analysis

Bass Pro Shops & Cabelas Outdoor Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Springfield, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2019, 7 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Bass Pro Shops & Cabelas Outdoor Fund reported income of $8.3m and spending of $9.1m, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $6.1m to $8.3m (+36%), an average of +8.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 74% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Bass Pro Shops & Cabelas Outdoor Fund sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Make-A-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc ($8.3m), Community Foundation of North Florida Inc ($8.4m) and Dekalb County Community Foundation ($8.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $16.7m against liabilities of $2.6m, net assets of $14.1m.