Museum at Warm Springs

Analysis

Museum at Warm Springs is a registered charity in United States, based in Warm Springs, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 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 2021, Museum at Warm Springs reported income of $456k and spending of $537k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2021, income fell from $656k to $456k (-30%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Museum at Warm Springs sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm ($456k), Friends of Alice Austen House Inc ($456k) and Artists for World Peace Inc ($456k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2021, revenue came from contributions and grants 68% and program service revenue 2.9% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $283k. At year end it held assets of $4.4m against liabilities of $210k, net assets of $4.2m. It reported 9 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.