John & Anna Newton Porter Foundation

Analysis

John & Anna Newton Porter Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Alton Bay, NH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1974, 52 years ago. 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 & Anna Newton Porter Foundation reported income of $3.1m and spending of $1.5m, leaving 50% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $3.1m (+125%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 121%. Over the whole period it spent 74% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, John & Anna Newton Porter Foundation sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within NH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Grand River Area Family Y M C a ($3.1m), St Bernardine Plaza Corporation ($3.1m) and Pine-Belt Multi-Purpose Community Action Agency Incorporated ($3.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 48% and program service revenue 46% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $626k. At year end it held assets of $6.3m against liabilities of $249k, net assets of $6.1m. It reported 60 employees.