1888 Message Study Committee

Analysis

1888 Message Study Committee is a registered charity in United States, based in Berrien SPRGS, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1989, 37 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, 1888 Message Study Committee reported income of $206k and spending of $225k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $486k to $206k (-58%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 128%. Over the whole period it spent 53% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, 1888 Message Study Committee sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile, and in the 54th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Music Camps at Wallowa Lake ($206k), Anyone Corporation ($206k) and Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum Inc ($205k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 77% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $56k. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $3,476, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 2 employees.