Pennsylvania Recreation and Park Society

Analysis

Pennsylvania Recreation and Park Society is a registered charity in United States, based in State College, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1976, 50 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 December 2023, Pennsylvania Recreation and Park Society reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.3m, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.5m (+28%), an average of +6.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Pennsylvania Recreation and Park Society sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Webster Groves Hockey Association Inc ($1.5m), Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association Inc ($1.5m) and Central Collegiate Hockey Association Inc ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 43% and program service revenue 48% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $157k (12% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $383k. At year end it held assets of $3.1m against liabilities of $334k, net assets of $2.8m. It reported 10 employees.