Tianmu Education Foundation

Analysis

Tianmu Education Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Saratoga, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2016, 10 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, Tianmu Education Foundation reported income of $922k and spending of $888k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $265k to $922k (+248%), an average of +37% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 96%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Tianmu Education Foundation sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 79th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Accessible Contemporary Music ($922k), Mesa Arts Center Foundation ($922k) and Theater Et Al ($921k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 28% and program service revenue 72% of the total. At year end it held assets of $580k against liabilities of $12k, net assets of $568k.