Swarthmore Centennial Foundation

Analysis

Swarthmore Centennial Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Swarthmore, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1994, 32 years ago. 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, Swarthmore Centennial Foundation reported income of $92k and spending of $67k, leaving 27% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $181k to $92k (-49%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Swarthmore Centennial Foundation sits at the 34th percentile: it is larger than about 34% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile, and in the 33rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Illinois Congress of Parents Teachers ($92k), El Paso Council for International ($92k) and Society of Women Engineers ($92k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 22% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.6m.