Seaside Highland Games

Analysis

Seaside Highland Games is a registered charity in United States, based in Chatsworth, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2003, 23 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, Seaside Highland Games reported income of $124k and spending of $123k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $140k to $124k (-12%), an average of -6.0% a year. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Seaside Highland Games sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile, and in the 45th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of the Arts Inc ($124k), Des Moines Area Quilters Guild Inc ($124k) and New Chaucer Society ($124k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $144k against liabilities of $51, net assets of $144k.