Port Huron Museum of Arts & History

Analysis

Port Huron Museum of Arts & History is a registered charity in United States, based in Port Huron, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1967, 59 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 September 2023, Port Huron Museum of Arts & History reported income of $1.0m and spending of $945k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $594k to $1.0m (+70%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 126%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Port Huron Museum of Arts & History sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 79th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Green Box Arts Project ($1.0m), Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach Inc ($1.0m) and The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio ($1.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 66% and program service revenue 19% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $427k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $197k, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 25 employees.