Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education

Analysis

Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education is a registered charity in United States, based in Ann Arbor, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. 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 2023, Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education reported income of $214k and spending of $340k, spending 159% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $898k to $214k (-76%), an average of -30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 86%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 55th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mojave Environmental Education Consortium ($214k), I-20 Wildlife Preserve & Jenna Welch Nature Study Center ($214k) and Oxbow Inc ($214k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 5.7% and program service revenue 96% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $188k. At year end it held assets of $274k against liabilities of $33k, net assets of $241k. It reported 5 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.