Pennsylvania State Shotgunning Association

Analysis

Pennsylvania State Shotgunning Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Elysburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2016, 10 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, Pennsylvania State Shotgunning Association reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.6m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.7m to $1.5m (-8.0%), an average of -2.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Pennsylvania State Shotgunning Association 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 84th percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include World Tang Soo Do Association ($1.5m), Beat the Streets Wrestling Inc ($1.5m) and MRT Center Inc ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 2.3% and program service revenue 97% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $369k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $323k, net assets of $890k. It reported 172 employees.

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.