The Fuel Cell Seminar

Analysis

The Fuel Cell Seminar is a registered charity in United States, based in Bend, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover science and technology, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. 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, The Fuel Cell Seminar reported income of $1.2m and spending of $932k, leaving 21% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $755k to $1.2m (+55%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 1379910%. Over the whole period it spent 70% 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 Fuel Cell Seminar sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies Inc ($1.2m), America Succeeds ($1.2m) and Hui Mauli Ola ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $5,270. At year end it held assets of $871k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $871k.