Society of American Fight Directors

Analysis

Society of American Fight Directors is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1988, 38 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, Society of American Fight Directors reported income of $213k and spending of $209k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $281k to $213k (-24%), an average of -6.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 1668%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Society of American Fight Directors sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 55th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sooner Athletic Conference ($213k), Wabaunsee Pines Golf Association ($213k) and Gallatin Soccer Club ($213k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $252k against liabilities of $4,314, net assets of $248k.