The Gaden Shartse Cultural Foundation

Analysis

The Gaden Shartse Cultural Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Long Beach, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. 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, The Gaden Shartse Cultural Foundation reported income of $284k and spending of $28k, leaving 90% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $221k to $284k (+29%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 228%. Over the whole period it spent 63% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, The Gaden Shartse Cultural Foundation sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Window on a Wider World ($284k), Company Dance Traverse ($284k) and H Lee White Maritime Museum at Oswego ($284k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $307k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $307k.