Common Ground Outdoor Adventures Inc

Analysis

Common Ground Outdoor Adventures Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Logan, UT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 2024, Common Ground Outdoor Adventures Inc reported income of $501k and spending of $533k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2020 to September 2024, income grew from $362k to $501k (+38%), an average of +8.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2024, when income rose by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Common Ground Outdoor Adventures Inc sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within UT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pearl Battered Womens Resource Center ($501k), Sponsored by Grace Inc ($501k) and Emerald Foundation Inc ($501k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 46% and program service revenue 10% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $110k (21% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $188k. At year end it held assets of $752k against liabilities of $13k, net assets of $739k. It reported 18 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.