Williams Grove Historical Steam Engine Association

Analysis

Williams Grove Historical Steam Engine Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Mechanicsburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1989, 37 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, Williams Grove Historical Steam Engine Association reported income of $786k and spending of $543k, leaving 31% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $438k to $786k (+79%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 64% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Williams Grove Historical Steam Engine Association sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Culture Lab Lic Inc ($785k), Thousand Islands Performing Artsfund Inc ($786k) and Museum of Jurassic Technology ($785k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 22% and program service revenue 76% of the total. At year end it held assets of $4.2m against liabilities of $309k, net assets of $3.9m.