Center for Nonprofit Excellence

Analysis

Center for Nonprofit Excellence is a registered charity in United States, based in Louisville, KY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2003, 23 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 June 2023, Center for Nonprofit Excellence reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.1m, leaving 25% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.4m (+35%), an average of +7.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 69%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Center for Nonprofit Excellence sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 84th percentile within KY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include NTFB - Perot Family Campus ($1.4m), Martin W Richard Charitable ($1.4m) and True Transitions ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 78% and program service revenue 22% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $213k (20% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $349k. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $171k, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 6 employees.