Special Recreation Services Inc

Analysis

Special Recreation Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Bangor, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Special Recreation Services Inc reported income of $610k and spending of $565k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $216k to $610k (+182%), an average of +41% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 71%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Special Recreation Services Inc sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 71st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Darke County United Way Inc ($609k), Friends of the Lone Soldier Inc ($610k) and Community Partners Inc ($609k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% and program service revenue 3.5% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $45k (8.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $295k. At year end it held assets of $158k against liabilities of $49k, net assets of $109k. It reported 23 employees.