Baseballtown Charities

Analysis

Baseballtown Charities is a registered charity in United States, based in Reading, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2003, 23 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 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, Baseballtown Charities reported income of $353k and spending of $628k, spending 178% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $225k to $353k (+57%), an average of +9.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 174% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Baseballtown Charities sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include United Way of Oxford-Lafayette County Inc ($353k), Quarry Farm Foundation Inc ($353k) and Shalhevet Hatorah Inc ($353k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 28% and program service revenue 46% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $1.6m, net assets of -$131k.

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.