Michigan Red Sox

Analysis

Michigan Red Sox is a registered charity in United States, based in Troy, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2005, 21 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, Michigan Red Sox reported income of $159k and spending of $203k, spending 128% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $397k to $159k (-60%), an average of -20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 81%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Michigan Red Sox sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 48th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Diamond Girls Softball Association ($159k), Bothell Cougar Football Association ($159k) and Fire Department of Montgomery Township ($159k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 5.7% and program service revenue 54% of the total. At year end it held assets of $479k against liabilities of $621k, net assets of -$142k.