Uptown Entertainment Alliance

Analysis

Uptown Entertainment Alliance is a registered charity in United States, based in West Chester, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2012, 14 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, Uptown Entertainment Alliance reported income of $2.0m and spending of $2.0m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.7m to $2.0m (+16%), an average of +3.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Uptown Entertainment Alliance sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Educational Information Corporation Wcpe Radio ($2.0m), Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy Inc ($2.0m) and Woodlawn Conservancy Inc ($2.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 24% and program service revenue 60% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $736k. At year end it held assets of $4.1m against liabilities of $234k, net assets of $3.9m. It reported 23 employees.