North Country Center for the Arts Inc

Analysis

North Country Center for the Arts Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Lincoln, NH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1987, 39 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 (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, North Country Center for the Arts Inc reported income of $458k and spending of $579k, spending 126% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from October 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $429k to $458k (+6.8%), an average of +1.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 690%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, North Country Center for the Arts Inc sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 71st percentile within NH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kelly Fitzpatrick Memorial Gallery Inc ($458k), Living Walls - the City Speaks Incorporated ($458k) and North Andover Historical Society ($458k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 37% and program service revenue 47% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $250k. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $216k, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 8 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.