Popular Culture Association

Analysis

Popular Culture Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Atlanta, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1994, 32 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 August 2023, Popular Culture Association reported income of $417k and spending of $719k, spending 172% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income fell from $654k to $417k (-36%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2020, when income dropped by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 116% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Popular Culture Association sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 71st percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include National Woodland Owners Association Inc ($417k), Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Historic Fund Inc ($417k) and Society for Financial Awareness ($417k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.1% and program service revenue 94% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $24k. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $72k, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 1 employees.