Fresh Air Home

Analysis

Fresh Air Home is a registered charity in United States, based in Savannah, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1943, 83 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 2022, Fresh Air Home reported income of $181k and spending of $273k, spending 150% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $201k to $181k (-10.0%), an average of -3.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 95%. Over the whole period it spent 71% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Fresh Air Home sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 52nd percentile, and in the 55th percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Waseca Community Arena ($181k), Women Leaders Forum of the Coachella Valley ($181k) and Little Cyclone Baseball Inc ($181k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 78% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $63k. At year end it held assets of $3.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.1m. It reported 50 employees.