Whitpain Recreation Assn

Analysis

Whitpain Recreation Assn is a registered charity in United States, based in Blue Bell, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1978, 48 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 August 2023, Whitpain Recreation Assn reported income of $1.2m and spending of $944k, leaving 20% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $654k to $1.2m (+81%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2021, when income rose by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Whitpain Recreation Assn sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 79th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hv3 Foundation ($1.2m), Fairfield Sports Association Inc ($1.2m) and Uscore Kicksave Foundation ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 13% and program service revenue 86% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $517k, net assets of $1.3m.