ACLU Foundation of Maryland Inc

Analysis

ACLU Foundation of Maryland Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Baltimore, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1972, 54 years ago. Its declared purposes cover civil rights, social action and advocacy, which this site groups under human rights and equality. 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 March 2023, ACLU Foundation of Maryland Inc reported income of $2.4m and spending of $5.3m, spending 220% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2019 to March 2023, income fell from $2.9m to $2.4m (-18%), an average of -4.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2020, when income rose by 168%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, ACLU Foundation of Maryland Inc sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Innocence Project New Orleans ($2.4m), March for Life Education and Defense Fund ($2.4m) and Chinatown Preservation Housing Development Fund Company Inc ($2.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 64% and program service revenue 35% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $407k (7.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.5m. At year end it held assets of $3.0m against liabilities of $678k, net assets of $2.3m. It reported 50 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.