Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center

Analysis

Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1998, 28 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 (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, Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center reported income of $1.1m and spending of $955k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $763k to $1.1m (+44%), an average of +9.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 69%. Over the whole period it spent 67% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 81st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance Inc ($1.1m), Museum of Western Colorado ($1.1m) and Roots of Music Inc ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 51% and program service revenue 42% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $129k (14% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $277k. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $22k, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 17 employees.