Freeland Community Sports Association

Analysis

Freeland Community Sports Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Freeland, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 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, Freeland Community Sports Association reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.0m, leaving 34% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.6m to $1.5m (-3.5%), an average of -0.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 58%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Freeland Community Sports Association sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Shenandoah National Park Association ($1.5m), Reading Recreation Commission ($1.5m) and Illinois Hawks Baseball Association ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 59% and program service revenue 30% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $434k. At year end it held assets of $2.0m against liabilities of $223k, net assets of $1.8m. It reported 82 employees.