The Portland Players Inc

Analysis

The Portland Players Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in S Portland, ME. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. 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 June 2024, The Portland Players Inc reported income of $232k and spending of $197k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $122k to $232k (+91%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 615%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, The Portland Players Inc sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 50th percentile within ME. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Civic Ballet Company of Scranton ($232k), Bharatiya Cultural Center Inc ($232k) and Tampa City Ballet Inc ($232k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 7.7% and program service revenue 92% of the total. At year end it held assets of $344k against liabilities of $23k, net assets of $322k.