Calvary Cemetery Association

Analysis

Calvary Cemetery Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Fond du Lac, WI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1989, 37 years ago. 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 2023, Calvary Cemetery Association reported income of $291k and spending of $378k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $434k to $291k (-33%), an average of -9.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Calvary Cemetery Association sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 61st percentile within WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lucy S Elliott Loan Fund ($291k), St Louis Artists Guild ($291k) and Harrison Chamber Foundation Inc ($291k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.7% and program service revenue 54% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $175k. At year end it held assets of $2.7m against liabilities of $4,559, net assets of $2.6m. It reported 13 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.