Mason County Forest Festival Association

Analysis

Mason County Forest Festival Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Shelton, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2025. 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, Mason County Forest Festival Association reported income of $67k and spending of $89k, spending 132% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $79k to $67k (-15%), an average of -15% a year. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Mason County Forest Festival Association sits at the 30th percentile: it is larger than about 30% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 26th percentile, and in the 21st percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include South Gwinnett Band Association Inc ($67k), Garifuna International Indigenous Film Festival ($67k) and Simpson County Guild of Artists and Craftsmen Ltd ($67k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.3% and program service revenue 80% of the total. At year end it held assets of $54k against liabilities of $6,070, net assets of $48k.