Jamestown Parks and Recreation Foundation Inc

Analysis

Jamestown Parks and Recreation Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Jamestown, ND. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2006, 20 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, Jamestown Parks and Recreation Foundation Inc reported income of $1.5m and spending of $681k, leaving 54% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $329k to $1.5m (+349%), an average of +46% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 160%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Jamestown Parks and Recreation Foundation Inc sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 81st percentile within ND. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Napa Youth Soccer League Inc ($1.5m), Francisco Park Conservancy ($1.5m) and West Coast Aquatics ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.3m.