Carriage Trade Gallery Corporation
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
Points to look into
- It owes more than it owns.
These come from the organization's own tax return. There may be a good explanation; ask the charity.
What it says it does
Through presenting primarily group exhibitions, Carriage Trade functions not as a means to promote the careers of individual artists, but to provide contexts for their work that reveal its relevance to larger social and political conditions prevalent today.
- Income
- $156,680
- Spending
- $152,530
- Reserves
- -5.4 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- fees for its services, 51%
- Highest pay
- $35,000, director
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Weak: 21 out of 100. Higher than 6% of charities in its peer group (arts and culture, under $250k).
Reserves
0 of 35Spendable reserves are negative: it owes or has committed more than it holds.
Debt
0 of 20It owes 381% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 3% of income.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (2)
- $105,707 spent. ExhibitionsChinatown Labor:Film Screening March 2024 Screening of filsm adressing both contemporary and historical examples of labor issues in Chinatown. Color Photographs from the New Deal Feb-April 2024 - Exhibit of color photographs from the New deal, orginally exhibited at 62 Walker ST in 2012 Including many new seletion form Library of Congress Archives, the show incorporates documentation of labor movemements. The madness of Crowds- May- July 2024 -With the near utopian promises of the early Internet gradually betrayed by the mind warping opportunism of the tech sectors attention economy, a creeping withdrawal from the broader social realm seems to have exposed and exacerbated profound rifts in Americas political and social order. Carriage Trade book Fair August 2024 Art Against Displacement, Ama Birch, The Baffler, Black Square Editions, citygroup, Canal Street Research Association, Fugitive Materials, Greenest Wolgamot, Hypothetical Books, Montez Press, New Poetics of Labor, Research and Destroy, Sprth Magers, uni(m)press, WORK RELATED BOOKS
- ART EXHIBITIONS - FISCAL SPONSORSHIPS
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Worth knowing.
Status was revoked on May 15, 2012 for not filing returns for three years, and reinstated on May 15, 2012.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since May 2012.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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