Baxter Park Wilderness Fund TR

Analysis

Baxter Park Wilderness Fund TR is a registered charity in United States, based in Milo, ME. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2021, 5 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 supporting organisation (type i) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Baxter Park Wilderness Fund TR reported income of $1.3m and spending of $458k, leaving 64% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $26.3m to $1.3m (-95%), an average of -64% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 296%. Over the whole period it spent 4.9% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Baxter Park Wilderness Fund TR sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 79th percentile within ME. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Darchei Hillel Inc ($1.3m), Grand Vision Foundation ($1.3m) and Optometry Giving Sight ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 2.5% of the total. At year end it held assets of $31.7m against liabilities of $100k, net assets of $31.6m.