Smurfit Westrock Employee Relief Fund

Analysis

Smurfit Westrock Employee Relief Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Atlanta, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public safety, disaster preparedness and relief, which this site groups under armed forces, emergency and public safety. 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, Smurfit Westrock Employee Relief Fund reported income of $430k and spending of $108k, leaving 75% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $634k to $430k (-32%), an average of -9.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 324%. Over the whole period it spent 37% of the income it received.

Among 9,128 United States charities whose main cause is armed forces, emergency and public safety and that reported income, Smurfit Westrock Employee Relief Fund sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rock Ridge Fire Department Inc ($430k), Rose Hill Firemen Inc ($431k) and Millerstown Fire Department Incorporated ($430k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.7m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.7m.