Lehigh Township Athletic Associaton

Analysis

Lehigh Township Athletic Associaton is a registered charity in United States, based in Cherryville, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1975, 51 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 August 2023, Lehigh Township Athletic Associaton reported income of $53k and spending of $97k, spending 184% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income fell from $72k to $53k (-27%), an average of -10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2020, when income dropped by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 132% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Lehigh Township Athletic Associaton sits at the 22nd percentile: it is larger than about 22% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 20th percentile, and in the 19th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include GHS Boys Lax Booster Club ($52k), Nadadores of South Florida Inc ($53k) and Plaquemines Heritage & Seafood Festival Inc ($52k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 5.1% and program service revenue 75% of the total. At year end it held assets of $100k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $100k.

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.