Bowling Green Parks and Recreation Foundation

Analysis

Bowling Green Parks and Recreation Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Bowling Green, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1994, 32 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 December 2023, Bowling Green Parks and Recreation Foundation reported income of $268k and spending of $130k, leaving 51% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $276k to $268k (-3.1%), an average of -1.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 51%. Over the whole period it spent 63% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Bowling Green Parks and Recreation Foundation 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 60th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Southern End Community Association ($268k), Minnesota Schoolgirls Lacrosse Association ($268k) and Willis Youth Athletic Association Inc ($268k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% of the total. At year end it held assets of $851k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $851k.