Desert Stages Inc

Analysis

Desert Stages Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Scottsdale, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2000, 26 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, Desert Stages Inc reported income of $785k and spending of $874k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $860k to $785k (-8.7%), an average of -2.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 164%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Desert Stages Inc sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Churchill Arts Council ($784k), David Warther Carvings ($785k) and American Latvian Association in the United States Inc ($784k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 12% and program service revenue 84% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $207k. At year end it held assets of $515k against liabilities of $452k, net assets of $63k. It reported 12 employees.