Athletes Helping Athletes Foundation

Analysis

Athletes Helping Athletes Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in San Diego, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2001, 25 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, Athletes Helping Athletes Foundation reported income of $71k and spending of $276k, spending 387% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $201k to $71k (-65%), an average of -23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 67%. Over the whole period it spent 173% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Athletes Helping Athletes Foundation sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 28th percentile, and in the 30th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lemont Baseball and Softball Club ($71k), United States Bowling Congress Inc ($71k) and Synchro Stars Synchronized Skating ($71k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% of the total. At year end it held assets of $97k against liabilities of $2,899, net assets of $94k.

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.