Templeton Foundation

Analysis

Templeton Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Cooperstown, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1989, 37 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Templeton Foundation reported income of $7.3m and spending of $6.9m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $7.3m to $7.3m (+0.8%), an average of +0.2% a year. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Templeton Foundation sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Self Help Addiction Rehabilitation Shar ($7.3m), Delaware Guidance Services for Children and Youth Inc ($7.3m) and MHP Salud ($7.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $47.9m against liabilities of $18.6m, net assets of $29.3m.