Sustainable Sports Foundation

Analysis

Sustainable Sports Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Sausalito, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2008, 18 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 December 2023, Sustainable Sports Foundation reported income of $90k and spending of $70k, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $266k to $90k (-66%), an average of -42% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 78%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Sustainable Sports Foundation sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile, and in the 36th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include East Madera Soccer League ($90k), Montgomery Girls Sports Association ($90k) and Little League Baseball Inc ($90k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.5% and program service revenue 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $31k against liabilities of $132k, net assets of -$101k.