Oral History Association

Analysis

Oral History Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Murfreesboro, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1968, 58 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, Oral History Association reported income of $506k and spending of $523k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $365k to $506k (+38%), an average of +8.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 419%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Oral History Association sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Harvest Christian School ($506k), Theta Tau Educational Foundation ($506k) and Walt Whitman Crew Boosters Inc ($505k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 65% and program service revenue 31% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $46k. At year end it held assets of $908k against liabilities of $80k, net assets of $828k. It reported 1 employees.