Bethel Recreation Association

Analysis

Bethel Recreation Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Spanaway, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 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 June 2023, Bethel Recreation Association reported income of $396k and spending of $327k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $313k to $396k (+26%), an average of +6.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 110%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Bethel Recreation Association 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 65th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St Louis Intercollegiate Athleticconference ($396k), Norge Ski Club ($396k) and North Haverhill Fair Association ($396k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 3.8% and program service revenue 96% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $191k. At year end it held assets of $294k against liabilities of $34k, net assets of $260k. It reported 138 employees.