Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey

Analysis

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey is a registered charity in United States, based in Kansas City, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1987, 39 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, Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.5m, spending 125% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.2m (+14%), an average of +3.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 134%. Over the whole period it spent 70% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 79th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Grandin Theatre Foundation Inc ($1.2m), Equalize Health ($1.2m) and Art League of Long Island ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% and program service revenue 15% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $527k. At year end it held assets of $2.9m against liabilities of $25k, net assets of $2.9m. It reported 15 employees.