Charleston Leadership Foundation

Analysis

Charleston Leadership Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Charleston, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religion-related, which this site groups under religion. 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, Charleston Leadership Foundation reported income of $134k and spending of $118k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $169k to $134k (-21%), an average of -5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 31,138 United States charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Charleston Leadership Foundation sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile, and in the 50th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Michele Telfer Ministries Inc ($134k), Harvest Haven Inc ($134k) and Hope Has Arrived ($134k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 4.6% and program service revenue 95% of the total. At year end it held assets of $282k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $282k.