4us

Analysis

4us is a registered charity in United States, based in Yelm, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2005, 21 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 (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, 4us reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.3m, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.5m (+26%), an average of +5.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, 4us sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Information Technology Exchange ($1.5m), Southern Alabama Ahec ($1.5m) and United Way of Wayne and Holmes Counties Inc ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $4,881, net assets of $1.3m.