Barrow Community Foundation

Analysis

Barrow Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Winder, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2009, 17 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 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, Barrow Community Foundation reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.1m, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $64k to $1.3m (+1899%), an average of +112% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 1209%. Over the whole period it spent 48% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Barrow Community Foundation sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 85th percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include United Way of Payne County Inc ($1.3m), Union County Community Foundation ($1.3m) and Marcum Foundation Inc ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% of the total. It paid $119k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $2.4m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.4m.