Society for the Preservation of the Duquesne Heights Incline

Analysis

Society for the Preservation of the Duquesne Heights Incline is a registered charity in United States, based in Pittsburgh, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 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, Society for the Preservation of the Duquesne Heights Incline reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.1m, leaving 31% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.6m to $1.6m (-0.5%), an average of -0.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 96%. Over the whole period it spent 71% 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 the Preservation of the Duquesne Heights Incline sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center ($1.6m), Wheeling Symphony Society Inc ($1.6m) and Leadership Legacy Life Foundation ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.6% and program service revenue 82% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $109k (9.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $343k. At year end it held assets of $8.3m against liabilities of $36k, net assets of $8.3m. It reported 31 employees.