Sports Quest

Analysis

Sports Quest is a registered charity in United States, based in Holland, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2007, 19 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 (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, Sports Quest reported income of $179k and spending of $248k, spending 139% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $100k to $179k (+78%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 78%. Over the whole period it spent 155% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Sports Quest sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 51st percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wren Youth Association ($179k), Women Anglers of Minnesota ($179k) and Diesel Athletics Inc ($179k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.8% and program service revenue 75% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.7m against liabilities of -$474, net assets of $2.7m.

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.