Southeast Association for Special Parks and Recreation

Analysis

Southeast Association for Special Parks and Recreation is a registered charity in United States, based in Downers Grove, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 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 (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, Southeast Association for Special Parks and Recreation reported income of $3.0m and spending of $3.5m, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $2.5m to $3.0m (+20%), an average of +4.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Southeast Association for Special Parks and Recreation sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Boating Inc ($3.0m), Vienna Youth Soccer Incorporated ($3.0m) and Cobb County Fair Association Inc ($3.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 54% and program service revenue 35% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.8m. At year end it held assets of $4.0m against liabilities of $887k, net assets of $3.1m. It reported 161 employees.