American Planning Association

Analysis

American Planning Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Harrisburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1983, 43 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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 2021, American Planning Association reported income of $247k and spending of $240k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2021, income fell from $297k to $247k (-17%), an average of -8.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 54%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, American Planning Association sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rebuilding Together Boston Inc ($247k), Vietnamese American Roundtable ($247k) and Beadle & Spink Enterprise Community Inc ($247k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2021, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.3% and program service revenue 81% of the total. At year end it held assets of $440k against liabilities of $29k, net assets of $410k.