Central Recreation Department

Analysis

Central Recreation Department is a registered charity in United States, based in Central, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1982, 44 years ago. 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 June 2024, Central Recreation Department reported income of $112k and spending of $140k, spending 125% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from June 2022 to June 2024, income grew from $77k to $112k (+45%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 99%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Central Recreation Department sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile, and in the 45th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Jewish Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc ($112k), Historic Paris- Bourbon County Inc Hopewell Museum ($112k) and PTA North Carolina Congress ($112k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 69% and program service revenue 31% of the total. At year end it held assets of $40k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $40k.