Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival

Analysis

Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival is a registered charity in United States, based in Walla Walla, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2010, 16 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 August 2023, Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival reported income of $359k and spending of $284k, leaving 21% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from August 2020 to August 2023, income grew from $156k to $359k (+130%), an average of +32% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2021, when income rose by 142%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include North Carolina Railway Museum Inc ($359k), Friends of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park ($359k) and Performing Arts Academy ($359k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 65% and program service revenue 33% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $103k. At year end it held assets of $403k against liabilities of $4,171, net assets of $399k. It reported 6 employees.