Chicago Lions Charitable Association

Analysis

Chicago Lions Charitable Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Northbrook, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 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, Chicago Lions Charitable Association reported income of $549k and spending of $903k, spending 164% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.6m to $549k (-65%), an average of -23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Chicago Lions Charitable Association sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 71st percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Elgin Stampeders Association Inc ($549k), Washington County Fair Association ($550k) and Carolina Aquatic Team ($549k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 75% and program service revenue 6.2% of the total. It paid $151k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $3.4m against liabilities of $121k, net assets of $3.3m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.