Pumping Station One NFP

Analysis

Pumping Station One NFP is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2025. 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 2020, Pumping Station One NFP reported income of $210k and spending of $234k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2020, income fell from $282k to $210k (-25%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Pumping Station One NFP sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 55th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fallbrook Gem & Mineral Society Inc ($210k), Second Generation Theatre Company Inc ($211k) and Bay Youth Orchestra of Virginia ($210k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2020, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.6% and program service revenue 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $215k against liabilities of $566, net assets of $215k.