Houston Juniors VBC

Analysis

Houston Juniors VBC is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 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 2022, Houston Juniors VBC reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.8m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $2.3m to $1.7m (-25%), an average of -9.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Houston Juniors VBC 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 84th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include T H O R Inc ($1.7m), Federation of International Lacrosse ($1.7m) and Chandler Amateur Hockey Association ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2,331 against liabilities of $347k, net assets of -$344k.

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.