Upper Room KC

Analysis

Upper Room KC is a registered charity in United States, based in Kansas City, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1998, 28 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, Upper Room KC reported income of $2.6m and spending of $2.7m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.8m to $2.6m (-6.1%), an average of -1.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 149%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Upper Room KC 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 88th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Livermore Youth Soccer League ($2.6m), San Antonio Force ($2.6m) and Lake County Fair Association ($2.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 18% and program service revenue 80% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $188k (6.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. At year end it held assets of $2.3m against liabilities of $1.9m, net assets of $469k. It reported 178 employees.