The Tom Ridge Environmental Center Foundation

Analysis

The Tom Ridge Environmental Center Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Erie, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 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 December 2023, The Tom Ridge Environmental Center Foundation reported income of $336k and spending of $290k, spending 86% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $164k to $336k (+104%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 112% 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 Tom Ridge Environmental Center Foundation sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 62nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pure Gems Inc ($336k), L Arche Daybreak Foundation U S ($336k) and Port Orange Family Days Community Trust Inc ($336k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 12% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $141k. At year end it held assets of $2.6m against liabilities of $20k, net assets of $2.6m. It reported 4 employees.