Bauxite Historical Association & Museum

Analysis

Bauxite Historical Association & Museum is a registered charity in United States, based in Bauxite, AR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Bauxite Historical Association & Museum reported income of $53k and spending of $96k, spending 181% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $49k to $53k (+7.2%), an average of +1.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 212% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Bauxite Historical Association & Museum sits at the 18th percentile: it is larger than about 18% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 21st percentile, and in the 18th percentile within AR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cornerstone Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry ($53k), Warm Clothes for Kids of Logan County ($53k) and Vietnamese American Community of Sacramento ($53k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 16% and program service revenue 58% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $26k, net assets of $1.5m.

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.