Alternative Music Foundation

Analysis

Alternative Music Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2014, 12 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, Alternative Music Foundation reported income of $258k and spending of $244k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $241k to $258k (+6.9%), an average of +1.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 202%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Alternative Music Foundation sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 61st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Maui Historical Society ($258k), Revitalization Community Involvement Initiative Inc ($258k) and Josephine Porter Institute for Applied Bio-Dynamics Inc ($258k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $0 against liabilities of $0, net assets of $0.