Dirtbags Baseball

Analysis

Dirtbags Baseball is a registered charity in United States, based in South Elgin, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2022, 4 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, Dirtbags Baseball reported income of $196k and spending of $240k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $221k to $196k (-11%), an average of -3.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 44%. 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, Dirtbags Baseball sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 54th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lake Superior Swim Club ($195k), Washington Soccer Association ($196k) and Westlake Cheer Parent Association ($195k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $25k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $25k.

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.