Storyland and Playland Inc

Analysis

Storyland and Playland Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Fresno, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1956, 70 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, Storyland and Playland Inc reported income of $986k and spending of $495k, leaving 50% of income unspent that year. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $670k to $986k (+47%), an average of +8.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 110%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Storyland and Playland Inc sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 80th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Northwest United FC ($985k), Laketown Gym ($986k) and Sonoma County Childrens Charities Inc ($985k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 78% and program service revenue 22% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $196k. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $146k, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 39 employees.