Beyond Ball

Analysis

Beyond Ball is a registered charity in United States, based in Des Moines, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Beyond Ball reported income of $244k and spending of $274k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $471k to $244k (-48%), an average of -15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Beyond Ball sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile, and in the 59th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bellevue Sports Athletic Association Inc ($243k), Go Wild Outdoors NP ($244k) and Cross Training Football Inc ($243k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 32% and program service revenue 68% of the total. At year end it held assets of $6,058 against liabilities of $0, net assets of $6,058.

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.