Childrens Museum of St Tammany Inc

Analysis

Childrens Museum of St Tammany Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Mandeville, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2013, 13 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, Childrens Museum of St Tammany Inc reported income of $387k and spending of $551k, spending 142% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $237k to $387k (+63%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 131%. Over the whole period it spent 140% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Childrens Museum of St Tammany Inc sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 65th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kindling Group NFP ($387k), Puerto Rico Information Technology Cluster Inc ($387k) and South Asia Institute ($387k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 25% and program service revenue 74% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $264k. At year end it held assets of $487k against liabilities of $156k, net assets of $331k. It reported 35 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.