Dunkirk Historical Lighthouse and Veterans Park Museum

Analysis

Dunkirk Historical Lighthouse and Veterans Park Museum is a registered charity in United States, based in Dunkirk, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1991, 35 years ago. Its declared purposes cover unknown, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. 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, Dunkirk Historical Lighthouse and Veterans Park Museum reported income of $71k and spending of $60k, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $50k to $71k (+42%), an average of +9.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 89%. Over the whole period it spent 60% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Dunkirk Historical Lighthouse and Veterans Park Museum sits at the 27th percentile: it is larger than about 27% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 28th percentile, and in the 29th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Nassau County County Library Inc ($71k), Friends of the Peapack Gladstone Library Inc ($71k) and Zebs Foundation ($71k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 42% and program service revenue 1.9% of the total. At year end it held assets of $346k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $346k.