Metropolitan Golf Writers Association

Analysis

Metropolitan Golf Writers Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Elmsford, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1999, 27 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, Metropolitan Golf Writers Association reported income of $114k and spending of $103k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $121k to $114k (-5.7%), an average of -1.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 599%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Metropolitan Golf Writers Association sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile, and in the 39th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dickinson Mustang Baseball Babe Ruth League ($114k), South Valley Water Polo Club ($114k) and Grand Canyon Community Recreation Program Inc ($114k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 83% and program service revenue 19% of the total. At year end it held assets of $24k against liabilities of $150, net assets of $24k.