Center for Exhibition Industry Research Foundation

Analysis

Center for Exhibition Industry Research Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Dallas, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1996, 30 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending September 2023, Center for Exhibition Industry Research Foundation reported income of $703k and spending of $841k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $825k to $703k (-15%), an average of -3.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2020, when income dropped by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 124% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Center for Exhibition Industry Research Foundation sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 79th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Charlotte Local Education Foundation Inc ($703k), Unlimited Housing for the Elderly Inc ($703k) and St Marks Terrace Housing Development Fund Corporation ($703k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 79% and program service revenue 8.1% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $157k. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $233k, net assets of $1.6m.

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.