Community Recreation Association Inc

Analysis

Community Recreation Association Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Dalton, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1955, 71 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Community Recreation Association Inc reported income of $175k and spending of $395k, spending 226% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $539k to $175k (-68%), an average of -24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 132% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Community Recreation Association Inc sits at the 45th percentile: it is larger than about 45% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 55th percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Homeless Hands of Zanesville LLC ($175k), Gadsden Senior Services ($175k) and At Home Advocacy Inc ($175k).

At year end it held assets of $6.1m against liabilities of $92k, net assets of $6.0m.

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.