Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery

Analysis

Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery is a registered charity in United States, based in Cambridge, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1991, 35 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 March 2023, Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery reported income of $3.6m and spending of $3.6m, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2019 to March 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $3.6m (+192%), an average of +31% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 154%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Buffalo Transportation Museum ($3.6m), National Council for the Social Studies ($3.6m) and Black Innovation Alliance ($3.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% and program service revenue 5.8% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $921k. At year end it held assets of $4.9m against liabilities of $2.6m, net assets of $2.3m.