St Lawrence County Arts Council

Analysis

St Lawrence County Arts Council is a registered charity in United States, based in Potsdam, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general 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, St Lawrence County Arts Council reported income of $1.1m and spending of $798k, leaving 30% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $197k to $1.1m (+481%), an average of +55% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 92%. Over the whole period it spent 81% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, St Lawrence County Arts Council sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 77th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kupa Shel Tzedakah ($1.1m), The Manna Center ($1.1m) and Cleveland Hillel Foundation Inc ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% and program service revenue 2.5% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $578k. At year end it held assets of $2.2m against liabilities of $1.8m, net assets of $442k. It reported 14 employees.