Bushfire Theatre of Performing Arts

Analysis

Bushfire Theatre of Performing Arts is a registered charity in United States, based in Philadelphia, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1982, 44 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, Bushfire Theatre of Performing Arts reported income of $106k and spending of $106k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $64k to $106k (+65%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2019, when income dropped by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Bushfire Theatre of Performing Arts sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile, and in the 36th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Canto Deo ($106k), American Historical Print Collectors Society Inc ($106k) and Crested Butte Mountain Theatre Inc ($106k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 71% of the total. At year end it held assets of $475k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $475k.