Pennsylvania Music Educators Association

Analysis

Pennsylvania Music Educators Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Hamburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1966, 60 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, Pennsylvania Music Educators Association reported income of $800k and spending of $963k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.1m to $800k (-27%), an average of -7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 106%. Over the whole period it spent 126% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Pennsylvania Music Educators 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 77th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Alice and Eleonore Schoenfeld International Music Society Inc ($800k), Theatre Lawrence Inc ($800k) and Educational Center for Arts & Science ($800k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $239k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $550k, net assets of $615k. It reported 5 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.