Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center

Analysis

Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1967, 59 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 school under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.5m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.6m (+32%), an average of +7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income rose by 162%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Leadership Legacy Life Foundation ($1.6m), Society for the Preservation of the Duquesne Heights Incline ($1.6m) and Wichita Sedgwick County Historial Museum Association ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 34% and program service revenue 64% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $101k (6.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $656k. At year end it held assets of $2.8m against liabilities of $197k, net assets of $2.6m. It reported 81 employees.