Society for Preservation & Encourmt of Barbershop Quartet Singing Amer

Analysis

Society for Preservation & Encourmt of Barbershop Quartet Singing Amer is a registered charity in United States, based in Fairfax, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1946, 80 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 December 2023, Society for Preservation & Encourmt of Barbershop Quartet Singing Amer reported income of $192k and spending of $155k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $219k to $192k (-13%), an average of -3.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 88%. 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, Society for Preservation & Encourmt of Barbershop Quartet Singing Amer sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Berks Youth Chorus Inc ($192k), Alliance Francaise de Cincinnati ($192k) and Adobe Theater Inc ($192k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 23% and program service revenue 74% of the total. At year end it held assets of $205k against liabilities of $225, net assets of $205k.