Black Hills Playhouse Inc

Analysis

Black Hills Playhouse Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Rapid City, SD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1948, 78 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 2022, Black Hills Playhouse Inc reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.2m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income grew from $1.2m to $1.3m (+10%), an average of +3.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 147%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Black Hills Playhouse Inc 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 82nd percentile, and in the 81st percentile within SD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kaatsbaan International Dance Center Inc ($1.3m), Holocaust Museum & Education Center of SWFL ($1.3m) and Whale Museum ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 55% and program service revenue 42% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $586k. At year end it held assets of $2.2m against liabilities of $488k, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 63 employees.