The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation

Analysis

The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Baton Rouge, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.4m, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $772k to $1.7m (+124%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 193%. Over the whole period it spent 144% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge 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 85th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Orcas Community Resource Center ($1.7m), Forever Families Inc ($1.7m) and Terra Manor ($1.7m).

At year end it held assets of $23.3m against liabilities of $7,600, net assets of $23.3m.