International Dark Sky Discovery Center Inc

Analysis

International Dark Sky Discovery Center Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Fountain HLS, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2019, 7 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, International Dark Sky Discovery Center Inc reported income of $1.9m and spending of $26k, leaving 99% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $27k to $1.9m (+7051%), an average of +191% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 6444%. Over the whole period it spent 1.9% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, International Dark Sky Discovery Center Inc sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Trinity Horizons Inc ($1.9m), Charitysmith Nonprofit Foundation ($1.9m) and Childrens Investment Fund Inc ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $10.9m against liabilities of $5.0m, net assets of $5.9m.