The Breathing Room Foundation

Analysis

The Breathing Room Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Elkins Park, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1998, 28 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, The Breathing Room Foundation reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.4m, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $948k to $1.2m (+31%), an average of +7.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Breathing Room 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 80th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Community Fund of Darien ($1.2m), Coffeyville Area Community Foundation Inc ($1.2m) and Irvine Valley College Foundation ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $79k (5.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $174k. At year end it held assets of $846k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $846k. It reported 5 employees.