West Coast Ragtime Society

Analysis

West Coast Ragtime Society is a registered charity in United States, based in Sacramento, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2021, 5 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 2023, West Coast Ragtime Society reported income of $71k and spending of $86k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $100k to $71k (-28%), an average of -8.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, West Coast Ragtime Society sits at the 31st percentile: it is larger than about 31% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 28th percentile, and in the 30th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Daar Charitable Foundation ($71k), Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America ($71k) and Columbia Basin Basketry Guild ($71k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $26k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $26k.