Camp Friendship

Analysis

Camp Friendship is a registered charity in United States, based in Brooklyn, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1976, 50 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, Camp Friendship reported income of $680k and spending of $425k, leaving 38% of income unspent that year. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $260k to $680k (+161%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 58%. Over the whole period it spent 70% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Camp Friendship sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 70th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Vincent Crotty Memorial Foundation ($680k), S a Lions Football Club Inc ($680k) and West Central District 3 of the Wash Interscholastic Activity Assn ($680k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 65% and program service revenue 3.7% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $163k. At year end it held assets of $1.0m against liabilities of $104k, net assets of $936k. It reported 7 employees.