Road Runners Club of America

Analysis

Road Runners Club of America is a registered charity in United States, based in Chattanooga, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1976, 50 years ago. 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, Road Runners Club of America reported income of $75k and spending of $96k, spending 129% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2017 to December 2023, income fell from $110k to $75k (-32%), an average of -9.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2018, when income rose by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Road Runners Club of America sits at the 29th percentile: it is larger than about 29% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 29th percentile, and in the 28th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Brookside Elementary School PTO ($74k), Kings Engineering Fellowship ($75k) and Lake of the Woods Adaptive Watersports ($74k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 5.2% and program service revenue 95% of the total. At year end it held assets of $26k against liabilities of $469, net assets of $25k.