Celebrate Highwood

Analysis

Celebrate Highwood is a registered charity in United States, based in Highwood, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2016, 10 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, Celebrate Highwood reported income of $106k and spending of $165k, spending 156% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $163k to $106k (-35%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Celebrate Highwood sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile, and in the 39th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rocky Mountain Wrestling ($106k), Inner City Youth Program Corp ($106k) and Friends of Dinosaur Park and Arboretum Inc ($106k).

At year end it held assets of $42k against liabilities of $27k, net assets of $15k.