Bristol Recreation Advisory Council

Analysis

Bristol Recreation Advisory Council is a registered charity in United States, based in Bristol, NH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1958, 68 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 December 2023, Bristol Recreation Advisory Council reported income of $1.2m and spending of $981k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $640k to $1.2m (+87%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Bristol Recreation Advisory Council sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within NH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oklahoma High School Rodeo Association ($1.2m), Wayforward Adventures Inc ($1.2m) and Spokane Youth Sports Association ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 58% and program service revenue 40% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $504k. At year end it held assets of $2.3m against liabilities of $1.0m, net assets of $1.2m. It reported 54 employees.