McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center Corporation

Analysis

McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center Corporation is a registered charity in United States, based in Concord, NH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 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 (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center Corporation reported income of $1.1m and spending of $1.2m, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $753k to $1.1m (+40%), an average of +8.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 62%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center Corporation sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within NH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of the West Shore Theatre Inc ($1.1m), Timpanogos Arts Foundation ($1.1m) and Sweetwater Art Center ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 41% and program service revenue 44% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $113k (9.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $477k. At year end it held assets of $660k against liabilities of $217k, net assets of $443k. It reported 30 employees.