Boston Bar Foundation Inc

Analysis

Boston Bar Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Boston, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1945, 81 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. 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 August 2023, Boston Bar Foundation Inc reported income of $2.8m and spending of $2.0m, leaving 27% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $1.9m to $2.8m (+48%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Boston Bar Foundation Inc sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County ($2.8m), Pregnancy Justice Inc ($2.8m) and Going Home II ($2.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 103% of the total. At year end it held assets of $12.6m against liabilities of $1.6m, net assets of $11.1m.