Stilwell Heritage and Educational Foundation

Analysis

Stilwell Heritage and Educational Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Pittsburg, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1992, 34 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, Stilwell Heritage and Educational Foundation reported income of $258k and spending of $272k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $142k to $258k (+81%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 122% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Stilwell Heritage and Educational Foundation sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 59th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Elmhurst Symphony Association Inc ($258k), Artists in Motion Bay Area ($258k) and Sound Salon ($258k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 20% and program service revenue 80% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $34k. At year end it held assets of $979k against liabilities of $12k, net assets of $967k. It reported 3 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.