Shotgun Cinema

Analysis

Shotgun Cinema is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbia, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2015, 11 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, Shotgun Cinema reported income of $153k and spending of $205k, spending 134% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $79k to $153k (+95%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 54%. 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, Shotgun Cinema sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 45th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Thousand Oaks Philharmonic ($153k), Rice Museum ($153k) and Charter Oak High School Band Boosters ($153k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 24% and program service revenue 76% of the total. At year end it held assets of $141k against liabilities of $1,258, net assets of $140k.