Bethel Park Historical Society

Analysis

Bethel Park Historical Society is a registered charity in United States, based in Bethel Park, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1991, 35 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Bethel Park Historical Society reported income of $171k and spending of $151k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $156k to $171k (+10%), an average of +2.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 662%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Bethel Park Historical Society sits at the 45th percentile: it is larger than about 45% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile, and in the 48th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Partners Therapeutic Horsemanship Inc ($171k), Toby House VI Inc ($171k) and Gulfport Multipurpose Senior Center Foundation Inc ($171k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $124k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $124k.