River City Aquatics

Analysis

River City Aquatics is a registered charity in United States, based in Jackson, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2014, 12 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, River City Aquatics reported income of $161k and spending of $171k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $262k to $161k (-39%), an average of -15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, River City Aquatics sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile, and in the 46th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gateway to Glacier Trail Inc ($161k), Camp Rainbow Inc ($161k) and Bellingham Youth Baseball Inc ($161k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.0% and program service revenue 15% of the total. At year end it held assets of $22k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $22k.

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.