Mary L and William J Osher Foundation

Analysis

Mary L and William J Osher Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending August 2022, Mary L and William J Osher Foundation reported income of $1.9m and spending of $1.9m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2022, income grew from $1.5m to $1.9m (+24%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2020, when income dropped by 123%. Over the whole period it spent 157% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Mary L and William J Osher Foundation sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Zach Johnson Foundation ($1.9m), Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley ($1.9m) and Best of the Batch Foundation ($1.9m).

At year end it held assets of $31.7m against liabilities of $1.3m, net assets of $30.4m.