Franklin S Charge Inc

Analysis

Franklin S Charge Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Franklin, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. 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, Franklin S Charge Inc reported income of $4.1m and spending of $119k, leaving 97% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $4.1m (+194%), an average of +31% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 12758%. Over the whole period it spent 4.9% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Franklin S Charge Inc sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ten Strands ($4.1m), Bluff Lake Nature Center ($4.1m) and Friends of the Arava Institute Ltd ($4.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $5.7m against liabilities of $14k, net assets of $5.7m.