Friends of the Robert Crown Center

Analysis

Friends of the Robert Crown Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Evanston, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2017, 9 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 2022, Friends of the Robert Crown Center reported income of $598k and spending of $697k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $2.7m to $598k (-78%), an average of -40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 92%. Over the whole period it spent 188% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Friends of the Robert Crown Center sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gym Parents Inc ($597k), Sangamon County Fair and Agriculture Association ($598k) and Jackson Hole Lacrosse Club ($597k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $266k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $266k.

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.