Charity Works

Analysis

Charity Works is a registered charity in United States, based in Culver City, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1997, 29 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 (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, Charity Works reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.2m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $245k to $1.3m (+450%), an average of +53% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 167%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Charity Works sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dubuque Museum of Art ($1.3m), Institute for Jewish and Community Research ($1.3m) and Human Energy Inc ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.0m against liabilities of $500k, net assets of $536k.