Sweet Adelines International

Analysis

Sweet Adelines International is a registered charity in United States, based in Petaluma, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1966, 60 years ago. 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 April 2024, Sweet Adelines International reported income of $60k and spending of $58k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2024, income grew from $30k to $60k (+97%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 402%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Sweet Adelines International sits at the 23rd percentile: it is larger than about 23% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 23rd percentile, and in the 25th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc ($60k), Bull Run Preserve Inc ($60k) and M & M Soccer Association Inc ($60k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending April 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.9% of the total. At year end it held assets of $90k against liabilities of $13k, net assets of $77k.