Society for American Baseball Research Inc

Analysis

Society for American Baseball Research Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Phoenix, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1987, 39 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, Society for American Baseball Research Inc reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.3m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.3m to $1.3m (+0.4%), an average of +0.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Society for American Baseball Research Inc sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 79th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Childrens Oncology Camp Foundation ($1.3m), Northern Virginia Travel Baseball League ($1.3m) and Franklin County Agricultural Society ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 50% and program service revenue 47% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $191k (15% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $316k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $327k, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 6 employees.