The Appel Farm Arts and Music Center

Analysis

The Appel Farm Arts and Music Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Elmer, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1981, 45 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending September 2023, The Appel Farm Arts and Music Center reported income of $2.5m and spending of $2.6m, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $2.8m to $2.5m (-11%), an average of -2.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 130%. Over the whole period it spent 96% 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 Appel Farm Arts and Music Center sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Don Harrington Discovery Center Foundation Inc ($2.5m), Friends of The@coastal Arts Pavilion at Freeman Park Inc ($2.5m) and Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse and Onondaga County ($2.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 46% and program service revenue 53% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.2m. At year end it held assets of $4.3m against liabilities of $1.3m, net assets of $3.0m. It reported 150 employees.