Play to Your Strengths

Analysis

Play to Your Strengths is a registered charity in United States, based in Ham Lake, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Play to Your Strengths reported income of $122k and spending of $165k, spending 136% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $81k to $122k (+50%), an average of +50% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 134% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Play to Your Strengths sits at the 37th percentile: it is larger than about 37% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile, and in the 39th percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Texas Horsemens Assistance Fund Inc ($122k), Missourians United to Combat Hunger Inc ($122k) and Village Bicycle Project Inc ($121k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 60% and program service revenue 40% of the total. At year end it held assets of $81k against liabilities of $2,595, net assets of $79k.