Pathfinder Ranch Inc

Analysis

Pathfinder Ranch Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Mountain Ctr, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1972, 54 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Pathfinder Ranch Inc reported income of $1.6m and spending of $2.0m, spending 129% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.8m to $1.6m (-15%), an average of -4.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 119% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Pathfinder Ranch Inc 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 84th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include FC Richmond ($1.6m), Chicago Yacht Club Foundation Inc ($1.6m) and Farmington Youth Hockey Assoc ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 14% and program service revenue 81% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $73k (3.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $888k. At year end it held assets of $7.6m against liabilities of $142k, net assets of $7.4m. It reported 65 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.