Overton Park Conservancy

Analysis

Overton Park Conservancy is a registered charity in United States, based in Memphis, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2011, 15 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, Overton Park Conservancy reported income of $1.7m and spending of $2.1m, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.7m (+62%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 78%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Overton Park Conservancy sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Girls on the Run Chicago Inc ($1.7m), Vietnamese American Communitycenter of the East Bay ($1.7m) and Hoosier Futbol Club Inc ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $203k (9.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $336k. At year end it held assets of $2.6m against liabilities of $181k, net assets of $2.4m. It reported 12 employees.