Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association

Analysis

Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Mansfield, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1960, 66 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, Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association reported income of $676k and spending of $636k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $501k to $676k (+35%), an average of +7.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include National Mounted Warfare Foundation ($676k), Barre Opera House Inc ($676k) and Eureka Springs School of the Arts Inc ($676k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 13% and program service revenue 54% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $24k (3.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $255k. At year end it held assets of $3.4m against liabilities of $9,766, net assets of $3.3m. It reported 23 employees.