South Whidbey Commons

Analysis

South Whidbey Commons is a registered charity in United States, based in Langley, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2002, 24 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, South Whidbey Commons reported income of $268k and spending of $309k, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $133k to $268k (+101%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 82%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, South Whidbey Commons sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 57th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include North Cobb Touchdown Club Inc ($268k), West Valley Red Hawks ($268k) and Friends of Howard University Golf ($268k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 7.7% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $212k. At year end it held assets of $546k against liabilities of $321k, net assets of $225k. It reported 21 employees.

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.