Shockers Youth Sports Development

Analysis

Shockers Youth Sports Development is a registered charity in United States, based in Crown Point, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2010, 16 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, Shockers Youth Sports Development reported income of $164k and spending of $190k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income fell from $231k to $164k (-29%), an average of -6.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Shockers Youth Sports Development sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile, and in the 48th percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Minnesota Synchronettes ($164k), Giving of Self Partnership ($164k) and Medina Valley Youth Baseball Association Inc ($164k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.9% and program service revenue 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $50k against liabilities of $127k, net assets of -$77k.

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.