Road Runners Club of America

Analysis

Road Runners Club of America is a registered charity in United States, based in Chattanooga, TN. 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 $394k and spending of $385k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $358k to $394k (+10%), an average of +1.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 156%. Over the whole period it spent 92% 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 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pierce County Umpires Association ($394k), Mt Washington Football & Cheer Association ($394k) and Fairbanks Curling Club Inc ($394k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 7.0% and program service revenue 92% of the total. At year end it held assets of $331k against liabilities of -$5,158, net assets of $336k. It reported 2 employees.