North Iowa Cultural Center and Museum

Analysis

North Iowa Cultural Center and Museum is a registered charity in United States, based in Clear Lake, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2008, 18 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, North Iowa Cultural Center and Museum reported income of $2.4m and spending of $2.5m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.4m to $2.4m (-0.6%), an average of -0.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 258%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, North Iowa Cultural Center and Museum sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Shared-Use Mobility Center ($2.4m), Advocates for Community Alternatives Inc ($2.4m) and Eureka McConnell Science Museum ($2.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 4.5% and program service revenue 90% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $87k (3.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $404k. At year end it held assets of $3.1m against liabilities of $741k, net assets of $2.4m. It reported 81 employees.