Hawthorne Ordnance Museum

Analysis

Hawthorne Ordnance Museum is a registered charity in United States, based in Hawthorne, NV. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Hawthorne Ordnance Museum reported income of $67k and spending of $65k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $109k to $67k (-39%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 99%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Hawthorne Ordnance Museum sits at the 29th percentile: it is larger than about 29% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 26th percentile, and in the 29th percentile within NV. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of the Humboldt Auditorium Foundation ($67k), Floridas Hometown USA Program Inc ($67k) and Kinnelon Elementary Home and Schoolassociation a NJ Nonprofit Corp ($67k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 73% of the total. At year end it held assets of $543k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $543k.