Community Giving Foundation

Analysis

Community Giving Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Berwick, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1999, 27 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, Community Giving Foundation reported income of $6.7m and spending of $4.3m, leaving 35% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $4.9m to $6.7m (+37%), an average of +8.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 106%. 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, Community Giving Foundation sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include United Way Quad Cities ($6.7m), Community Foundations Inc ($6.7m) and Mission Increase ($6.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 56% and program service revenue 1.3% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $254k (5.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $292k. At year end it held assets of $73.8m against liabilities of $6.1m, net assets of $67.7m. It reported 10 employees.