Alston Wilkes Foundation

Analysis

Alston Wilkes Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbia, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1972, 54 years ago. 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 December 2022, Alston Wilkes Foundation reported income of $518k and spending of $21, leaving 100% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2022, income grew from $30k to $518k (+1631%), an average of +104% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 7763%. Over the whole period it spent 0.5% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Alston Wilkes Foundation sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 75th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include NC Elderly Housing Inc ($518k), Neighbors Corporation ($518k) and Baptist Publishing House ($518k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $629k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $629k.