Litchfield Museum & Route 66 Welcome Center

Analysis

Litchfield Museum & Route 66 Welcome Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Litchfield, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2012, 14 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 June 2024, Litchfield Museum & Route 66 Welcome Center reported income of $69k and spending of $83k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income fell from $183k to $69k (-62%), an average of -22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income dropped by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 74% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Litchfield Museum & Route 66 Welcome Center sits at the 30th percentile: it is larger than about 30% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 27th percentile, and in the 28th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Music at Bunker Hill a NJ Non-Profit Corporation ($69k), Hudson Valley Arts and Science Inc ($69k) and E Pluribus Unum Films ($69k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $577k against liabilities of $39k, net assets of $538k.