Iowa Youth Athletic Foundation

Analysis

Iowa Youth Athletic Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Ames, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2006, 20 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, Iowa Youth Athletic Foundation reported income of $2.7m and spending of $2.3m, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $2.7m (+126%), an average of +23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 84%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Iowa Youth Athletic Foundation sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include San Francisco Glens Junior Soccer Association ($2.7m), Emerald Kidsports ($2.7m) and Little Village Environmental Justice Organization ($2.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 7.8% and program service revenue 87% of the total. At year end it held assets of $8.6m against liabilities of $6.6m, net assets of $2.0m.