West Virginia Golf Association

Analysis

West Virginia Golf Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Charleston, WV. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2014, 12 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, West Virginia Golf Association reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.4m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.5m (+24%), an average of +5.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, West Virginia Golf Association sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within WV. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Reading Recreation Commission ($1.5m), North Pittsburgh Youth Hockey Association ($1.5m) and Freeland Community Sports Association ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.8% and program service revenue 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $86k (6.2% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $921k against liabilities of $260k, net assets of $662k.