Menlo Atherton Athletic Boosters

Analysis

Menlo Atherton Athletic Boosters is a registered charity in United States, based in Menlo Park, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2003, 23 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 June 2023, Menlo Atherton Athletic Boosters reported income of $178k and spending of $180k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $262k to $178k (-32%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Menlo Atherton Athletic Boosters sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 53rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Northern Virginia Nereids Synchronized Swim Team ($178k), Empowering Leadership in Latina Athletes ($178k) and Elkhorn American Legion Baseball Association ($178k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $174k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $174k.

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.