Mesa Arts Center Foundation

Analysis

Mesa Arts Center Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Mesa, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1991, 35 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 June 2023, Mesa Arts Center Foundation reported income of $922k and spending of $974k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $809k to $922k (+14%), an average of +3.3% a year. 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, Mesa Arts Center Foundation sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tianmu Education Foundation ($922k), The Marsh a Breeding Ground for New Performance ($922k) and Accessible Contemporary Music ($922k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $327k, net assets of $787k.