Burton Foundation for Legal Achievement

Analysis

Burton Foundation for Legal Achievement is a registered charity in United States, based in New York, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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, Burton Foundation for Legal Achievement reported income of $1.6m and spending of $861k, leaving 46% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.6m (+35%), an average of +7.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 479527%. Over the whole period it spent 72% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Burton Foundation for Legal Achievement sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 80th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Maker Nexus ($1.6m), San Miguel Febres Cordero School Inc ($1.6m) and Pike University Inc ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.0m against liabilities of $37k, net assets of $1.9m.