Ohio High School Athletic Association

Analysis

Ohio High School Athletic Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbus, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1942, 84 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 July 2023, Ohio High School Athletic Association reported income of $25.2m and spending of $22.8m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2019 to July 2023, income grew from $19.6m to $25.2m (+28%), an average of +6.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2021, when income rose by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Ohio High School Athletic Association sits at the 100th percentile: it is one of the largest 1% in its cause. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile, and in the 98th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Grace Adventures Ministries ($25.0m), Bryant Park Corporation ($25.6m) and Leroy Springs & Company Inc ($24.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending July 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 8.0% and program service revenue 90% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $412k (1.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.9m. At year end it held assets of $22.7m against liabilities of $2.2m, net assets of $20.6m. It reported 67 employees.