Road Runners Club of America

Analysis

Road Runners Club of America is a registered charity in United States, based in Huntsville, AL. 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).

In the financial year ending December 2023, Road Runners Club of America reported income of $518k and spending of $518k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $71k to $518k (+633%), an average of +64% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 188%. Over the whole period it spent 96% 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 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Potomac Field Hockey Incorporated ($518k), Boulder City Henderson Swim Team ($519k) and Central Alabama Sports Commission Inc ($518k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 5.2% and program service revenue 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $606k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $606k.