Durham Community Foundation

Analysis

Durham Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Durham, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Durham Community Foundation reported income of $206k and spending of $130k, leaving 37% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $108k to $206k (+90%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 270%. Over the whole period it spent 54% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Durham Community Foundation sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile, and in the 57th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Team One27 ($206k), National Safe Haven Alliance ($206k) and Friends & Neighbors Community Fund ($206k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 28% and program service revenue 0.7% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.8m.