Columbus Historical Preservation Trust

Analysis

Columbus Historical Preservation Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbus, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1968, 58 years ago. Its declared purposes cover unknown, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. 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, Columbus Historical Preservation Trust reported income of $380k and spending of $50k, leaving 87% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $76k to $380k (+397%), an average of +49% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 933%. Over the whole period it spent 44% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Columbus Historical Preservation Trust sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 70th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include National Church Residences of ($380k), The Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association ($380k) and Milford Fine Arts Council Inc ($380k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 119% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.2m.