Catharine a Harrison Fund

Analysis

Catharine a Harrison Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Wellsboro, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1966, 60 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, Catharine a Harrison Fund reported income of $308k and spending of $255k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $307k to $308k (+0.2%), an average of +0.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 105%. Over the whole period it spent 75% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Catharine a Harrison Fund sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 60th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sawnee Electric Membership Foundation Inc ($308k), Quality of Life Foundation ($308k) and Southern Union State Community College Foundation ($308k).

Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $41k (16% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $6.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $6.2m.