Portage County Historical Society Inc

Analysis

Portage County Historical Society Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Stevens Point, WI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1977, 49 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 December 2023, Portage County Historical Society Inc reported income of $188k and spending of $153k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $265k to $188k (-29%), an average of -8.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 68%. Over the whole period it spent 77% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Portage County Historical Society Inc sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 52nd percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pianosonoma Music Festival Inc ($188k), Rancho Obi-Wan Inc ($188k) and Society for Preservation & Encrgmnt of Barbershop Quartet Singing Amer ($188k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 69% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $54k. At year end it held assets of $640k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $640k. It reported 5 employees.