Public Management Research Association

Analysis

Public Management Research Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Lawrence, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Public Management Research Association reported income of $159k and spending of $63k, leaving 60% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $129k to $159k (+24%), an average of +5.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 83%. Over the whole period it spent 29% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Public Management Research Association sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile, and in the 47th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lifestyle Foundation ($159k), Henderson County Fair Association ($159k) and Laurel Historical Society Inc ($159k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 46% and program service revenue 54% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.5m.