Take-Up Productions

Analysis

Take-Up Productions is a registered charity in United States, based in Minneapolis, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2011, 15 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, Take-Up Productions reported income of $445k and spending of $310k, leaving 30% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $269k to $445k (+66%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 281%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Take-Up Productions sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Vital Wines ($445k), Dances for a Variable Population Inc ($446k) and Brattleboro Museum and Art Center Inc ($445k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.2% and program service revenue 84% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $98k (32% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $491k against liabilities of $8,326, net assets of $482k. It reported 4 employees.