The Route to Roots Corporation

Analysis

The Route to Roots Corporation is a registered charity in United States, based in Great Neck, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, The Route to Roots Corporation reported income of $139k and spending of $142k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $259k to $139k (-46%), an average of -27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Route to Roots Corporation sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 45th percentile, and in the 44th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mia Hamm Foundation ($139k), United Way of Boone County Illinois ($139k) and Warren District Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($139k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $13k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $13k.