Community Initiatives Foundation

Analysis

Community Initiatives Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Baton Rouge, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 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, Community Initiatives Foundation reported income of $103k and spending of $95k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $58k to $103k (+80%), an average of +80% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 80%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Community Initiatives Foundation sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile, and in the 37th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Loving Hands Community Care Inc ($103k), Amazing Care Charitable Foundation ($103k) and Light Partnership Corp ($103k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $15k against liabilities of $5,447, net assets of $9,229.