USA Pickleball Association

Analysis

USA Pickleball Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Scottsdale, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2012, 14 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, USA Pickleball Association reported income of $7.1m and spending of $7.0m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.8m to $7.1m (+302%), an average of +42% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 86%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, USA Pickleball Association sits at the 99th percentile: it is one of the largest 1% in its cause. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tga USA ($7.1m), Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership Corporation ($7.2m) and Metropolitan Richmond Sports Backers Inc ($7.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 33% and program service revenue 66% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $803k (11% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.4m. At year end it held assets of $2.9m against liabilities of $2.7m, net assets of $220k. It reported 37 employees.