Newtown Babe Ruth League

Analysis

Newtown Babe Ruth League is a registered charity in United States, based in Newtown, CT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1999, 27 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, Newtown Babe Ruth League reported income of $379k and spending of $342k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $183k to $379k (+107%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 129%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Newtown Babe Ruth League sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within CT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Santa Cruz City Youth Soccer Club ($379k), Davis Aquatic Masters ($379k) and Whitefish Adult Ice Hockey ($379k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 6.3% and program service revenue 93% of the total. At year end it held assets of $147k against liabilities of $500, net assets of $146k.