Marshland Festival Association

Analysis

Marshland Festival Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Hackberry, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public safety, disaster preparedness and relief, which this site groups under armed forces, emergency and public safety. 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, Marshland Festival Association reported income of $273k and spending of $288k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $224k to $273k (+22%), an average of +5.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 19819%. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 9,128 United States charities whose main cause is armed forces, emergency and public safety and that reported income, Marshland Festival Association sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 59th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kings Park Fire Department Inc ($273k), Hartford Volunteer Fire Co Inc ($273k) and Cord Volunteer Fire Dept ($273k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 4.6% and program service revenue 91% of the total. At year end it held assets of $24k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $24k.

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.