Encore Performing Arts Center

Analysis

Encore Performing Arts Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Pontiac, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Encore Performing Arts Center reported income of $154k and spending of $86k, leaving 44% of income unspent that year. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income fell from $763k to $154k (-80%), an average of -27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 222%. Over the whole period it spent 56% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Encore Performing Arts Center 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 47th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Spokane Language House ($154k), Chelonian Research Institute Corporation ($154k) and Newport Country Club Preservation Foundation ($154k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 60% and program service revenue 39% of the total. At year end it held assets of $14k against liabilities of $216k, net assets of -$202k.