Women Leaders in Sports

Analysis

Women Leaders in Sports is a registered charity in United States, based in Kansas City, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2000, 26 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, Women Leaders in Sports reported income of $3.1m and spending of $3.1m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.5m to $3.1m (+26%), an average of +5.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 38%. 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, Women Leaders in Sports sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Squash and Education Alliance Inc ($3.1m), Chargers Soccer Club Inc ($3.1m) and Beloved and Beyond ($3.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 51% and program service revenue 46% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $478k (15% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $937k. At year end it held assets of $3.5m against liabilities of $553k, net assets of $2.9m. It reported 21 employees.