West Coast Songwriters Association

Analysis

West Coast Songwriters Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Redwood City, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1983, 43 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, West Coast Songwriters Association reported income of $69k and spending of $84k, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $99k to $69k (-31%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 62% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, West Coast Songwriters 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 27th percentile, and in the 29th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hatch - a Hamtramck Art Collective ($69k), Everett Chorale ($69k) and Bristol Friends of the Arts Inc ($69k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 62% and program service revenue 8.0% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3,845 against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3,845.