Downriver Youth Performing Arts Center

Analysis

Downriver Youth Performing Arts Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Trenton, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1999, 27 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 May 2023, Downriver Youth Performing Arts Center reported income of $161k and spending of $224k, spending 139% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2019 to May 2023, income fell from $231k to $161k (-30%), an average of -8.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2022, when income rose by 177%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Downriver Youth Performing Arts Center sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile, and in the 48th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Red Bluff Roundup Rodeo Museum and Historical Society ($161k), American Friends of the Berlin Staatsoper Inc ($161k) and Armstrong County Historical Museum and Genealogical Society Inc ($161k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending May 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 4.4% and program service revenue 87% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $15k (6.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $37k. At year end it held assets of $153k against liabilities of $800, net assets of $153k. It reported 18 employees.