Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center

Analysis

Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Breckenridge, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1977, 49 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. 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 September 2023, Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center reported income of $3.4m and spending of $3.1m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $2.4m to $3.4m (+43%), an average of +9.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Loppet Foundation Inc ($3.4m), New Jersey State Youth Soccer Association ($3.4m) and Long Island Swimming ($3.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 64% and program service revenue 30% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $144k (4.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.4m. At year end it held assets of $5.3m against liabilities of $62k, net assets of $5.2m. It reported 73 employees.