Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation Inc

Analysis

Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Brightwaters, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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 August 2023, Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation Inc reported income of $1.2m and spending of $999k, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $730k to $1.2m (+63%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 94%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation Inc 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 81st percentile, and in the 77th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Michael Levin Lone Soldier Foundation Inc ($1.2m), Junior Achievement of Central Iowa Inc ($1.2m) and Every Woman Treaty Inc ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.1m.