American Art Therapy Association Inc

Analysis

American Art Therapy Association Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Arlington, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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 2022, American Art Therapy Association Inc reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.4m, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $1.3m to $1.3m (-2.9%), an average of -1.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, American Art Therapy Association Inc sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Vermont Coalition of Clinics for the Uninsured Inc ($1.3m), Northwest Missouri Childrens Advocacy Center ($1.3m) and On My Own of Michigan ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 9.7% and program service revenue 87% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $186k (13% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $323k. At year end it held assets of $661k against liabilities of $687k, net assets of -$25k. It reported 14 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.