Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum

Analysis

Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum is a registered charity in United States, based in Honolulu, HI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1999, 27 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, Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum reported income of $16.7m and spending of $10.3m, leaving 39% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $11.5m to $16.7m (+46%), an average of +9.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 100%. Over the whole period it spent 64% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within HI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Minnesota Opera ($16.7m), Houston Grand Opera Endowment Inc ($16.7m) and The Tech Interactive ($16.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 45% and program service revenue 47% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $2.4m. At year end it held assets of $52.4m against liabilities of $4.8m, net assets of $47.6m. It reported 87 employees.