Columbus Scottish Festival

Analysis

Columbus Scottish Festival is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbus, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 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, Columbus Scottish Festival reported income of $51k and spending of $54k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $87k to $51k (-42%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 1212%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Columbus Scottish Festival sits at the 21st percentile: it is larger than about 21% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 20th percentile, and in the 16th percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fort Worth Tennis Patrons Association Inc ($51k), Turbotville Community Hall Corporation ($51k) and Idlewild Christian Endeavors Incorporated ($51k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $27k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $27k.