Aberdeen Amateur Hockey Association

Analysis

Aberdeen Amateur Hockey Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Aberdeen, SD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1973, 53 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 April 2023, Aberdeen Amateur Hockey Association reported income of $485k and spending of $616k, spending 127% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2019 to April 2023, income grew from $435k to $485k (+12%), an average of +2.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 125% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Aberdeen Amateur Hockey Association sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within SD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Edina Soccer Association ($485k), Katy Youth Basketball Inc ($485k) and Pinnacle Partners of the Carolinas Inc ($485k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending April 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 80% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $25k. At year end it held assets of $2.0m against liabilities of $166k, net assets of $1.8m. It reported 20 employees.

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.