Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum & Veterans Archive

Analysis

Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum & Veterans Archive is a registered charity in United States, based in Hammond, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1990, 36 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 December 2022, Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum & Veterans Archive reported income of $130k and spending of $269k, spending 207% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $183k to $130k (-29%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 46%. Over the whole period it spent 141% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum & Veterans Archive sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile, and in the 42nd percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Music in Urban Schools Inspiring Change ($130k), Performing Arts of Maitland Inc ($130k) and Gloucester County Historical Society ($130k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 62% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $57k. At year end it held assets of $935k against liabilities of $673k, net assets of $262k. It reported 6 employees.

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.