Blue Legacy

Analysis

Blue Legacy is a registered charity in United States, based in Port Orchard, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2019, 7 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, Blue Legacy reported income of $154k and spending of $146k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $99k to $154k (+55%), an average of +55% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Blue Legacy sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 44th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include American Passenger Train History Museum Inc ($154k), Applied Superconductivity Educational Conference ($154k) and American Romanian Cultural Society ($153k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% of the total. At year end it held assets of $23k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $23k.