Road Runners Club of America

Analysis

Road Runners Club of America is a registered charity in United States, based in Lakeland, FL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 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 $222k and spending of $182k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $167k to $222k (+33%), an average of +7.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 73%. Over the whole period it spent 88% 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 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 59th percentile within FL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Marin Trail Stewards ($222k), Harrisburg Hunters and Anglers Assoc Inc ($222k) and West Covina Bruins Youth Football ($222k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 15% and program service revenue 82% of the total. At year end it held assets of $163k against liabilities of $20, net assets of $163k.