GW Foundation Inc

Analysis

GW Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, GW Foundation Inc reported income of $7.3m and spending of $1.5m, leaving 80% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $7.7m to $7.3m (-5.0%), an average of -1.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 20% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, GW Foundation Inc sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 94th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Delaware Guidance Services for Children and Youth Inc ($7.3m), Womens Center of Tarrant County Inc ($7.3m) and Templeton Foundation ($7.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 82% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $55k. At year end it held assets of $106.1m against liabilities of $96k, net assets of $106.0m.