Mercer Island Lacrosse Club

Analysis

Mercer Island Lacrosse Club is a registered charity in United States, based in Mercer Island, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2003, 23 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 September 2023, Mercer Island Lacrosse Club reported income of $508k and spending of $535k, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $388k to $508k (+31%), an average of +9.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Mercer Island Lacrosse Club 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 70th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sacramento North Soccer ($508k), Marion County Youth Football League ($508k) and Park Rapids Amateur Hockey Association Inc ($508k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 17% and program service revenue 84% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $86k. At year end it held assets of $130k against liabilities of $108k, net assets of $22k. It reported 1 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.