Road Runners Club of America

Analysis

Road Runners Club of America is a registered charity in United States, based in Arlington, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 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 (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, Road Runners Club of America reported income of $298k and spending of $279k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $227k to $298k (+31%), an average of +5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 226%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Road Runners Club of America sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 61st percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include New England Collegiate Baseball League Inc ($297k), Play for Hope ($298k) and Cincinnati Heat Premier ($297k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 8.6% and program service revenue 91% of the total. At year end it held assets of $294k against liabilities of $87k, net assets of $207k.