Burritt Museum Association Inc

Analysis

Burritt Museum Association Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Huntsville, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1985, 41 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 September 2023, Burritt Museum Association Inc reported income of $1.8m and spending of $1.5m, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $1.5m to $1.8m (+16%), an average of +3.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 91%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Burritt Museum Association Inc sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lake Erie Junior Nature & Science Center ($1.8m), Stockton Symphony Association Inc ($1.8m) and Sunwork Renewable Energy Projects ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 33% and program service revenue 54% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.2m against liabilities of $571k, net assets of $1.6m.