Foothills Sports Association

Analysis

Foothills Sports Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Denver, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1977, 49 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 August 2024, Foothills Sports Association reported income of $610k and spending of $554k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2024, income grew from $335k to $610k (+82%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2021, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Foothills Sports Association 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 71st percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Platform Elite ($610k), Utah Mountain Sports Academy ($610k) and San Luis Obispo Sportsmens Association ($610k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% and program service revenue 11% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $148k (27% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $149k. At year end it held assets of $462k against liabilities of $137k, net assets of $326k. It reported 13 employees.