Raise the Bar Initiative

Analysis

Raise the Bar Initiative is a registered charity in United States, based in Des Moines, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2018, 8 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 June 2024, Raise the Bar Initiative reported income of $70k and spending of $87k, spending 124% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2022 to June 2024, income fell from $91k to $70k (-24%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income dropped by 102%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Raise the Bar Initiative sits at the 32nd percentile: it is larger than about 32% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 27th percentile, and in the 25th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pop Warner Little Scholars Inc ($70k), SLSC Inc ($70k) and Rabbit Creek Shooting Park Foundation ($70k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 46% of the total. At year end it held assets of $133k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $133k.