Kansas City Jazz Alive

Analysis

Kansas City Jazz Alive is a registered charity in United States, based in Kansas City, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2014, 12 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, Kansas City Jazz Alive reported income of $113k and spending of $91k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $47k to $113k (+138%), an average of +138% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 138%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Kansas City Jazz Alive sits at the 45th percentile: it is larger than about 45% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile, and in the 38th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Imagination Theater Company ($113k), Wat Buddharam of North Carolina ($113k) and Wyalusing Valley Museum Assoc ($113k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% and program service revenue 7.6% of the total. At year end it held assets of $28k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $28k.