Fort Hays State Athletic Association

Analysis

Fort Hays State Athletic Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Hays, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1941, 85 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. The IRS classifies it as a organisation supporting a government-owned college or university under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2024, Fort Hays State Athletic Association reported income of $6.5m and spending of $6.7m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $3.3m to $6.5m (+98%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 194%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Fort Hays State Athletic Association sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Detroit 300 Conservancy ($6.5m), Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association Inc ($6.5m) and Norfolk Festevents Ltd ($6.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 59% and program service revenue 40% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $2.7m. At year end it held assets of $15.2m against liabilities of $722k, net assets of $14.5m. It reported 146 employees.