Jamestown Historical Society

Analysis

Jamestown Historical Society is a registered charity in United States, based in Jamestown, RI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1967, 59 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 December 2023, Jamestown Historical Society reported income of $169k and spending of $129k, leaving 24% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $82k to $169k (+106%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 74% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Jamestown Historical Society sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile, and in the 47th percentile within RI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc ($169k), New Richmond Preservation Society Inc ($169k) and Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers ($169k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 64% and program service revenue 10% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $632, net assets of $1.6m.