Rooftop Foundation

Analysis

Rooftop Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Nashville, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2006, 20 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, Rooftop Foundation reported income of $568k and spending of $931k, spending 164% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $350k to $568k (+62%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 287%. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Rooftop 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 72nd percentile, and in the 74th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Thomas H Slater Center Inc ($568k), California Fresh Farmers Market Association ($568k) and Five Point Center Inc ($568k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $204k. At year end it held assets of $150k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $150k. It reported 6 employees.