John Buck Company Foundation

Analysis

John Buck Company Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, John Buck Company Foundation reported income of $592k and spending of $419k, leaving 29% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $779k to $592k (-24%), an average of -6.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 2276%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, John Buck Company Foundation sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sioux Center Foundation ($592k), Tehilot Israel Inc ($593k) and Military Support Groups of America ($592k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 82% of the total. At year end it held assets of $500k against liabilities of $41k, net assets of $458k.