Hershey Area Playhouse

Analysis

Hershey Area Playhouse is a registered charity in United States, based in Hershey, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1999, 27 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 (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, Hershey Area Playhouse reported income of $191k and spending of $198k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $155k to $191k (+23%), an average of +5.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 96%. Over the whole period it spent 116% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Hershey Area Playhouse sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 50th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Motor City Performing Arts ($191k), Batavia Access Television Inc ($191k) and Vietnamese Culture and Science Association ($191k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 13% and program service revenue 81% of the total. At year end it held assets of $913k against liabilities of $287k, net assets of $626k.