Pennsylvania Chautauqua Foundation

Analysis

Pennsylvania Chautauqua Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Mount Gretna, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2001, 25 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 Chautauqua Foundation reported income of $76k and spending of $102k, spending 135% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $294k to $76k (-74%), an average of -29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 268%. Over the whole period it spent 70% 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 Chautauqua Foundation sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 30th percentile, and in the 28th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Historic Port Royal Foundation ($76k), Sparks for Success ($76k) and Scott-Carver Old Threshers Association ($76k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 69% of the total. At year end it held assets of $632k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $632k.