Can Do Community Foundation

Analysis

Can Do Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Hazleton, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1993, 33 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, Can Do Community Foundation reported income of $1.1m and spending of $137k, leaving 87% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $288k to $1.1m (+269%), an average of +39% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 516%. Over the whole period it spent 10% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Can Do Community Foundation 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 80th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Civic NYC Fund Inc ($1.1m), Thisisplace Foundation ($1.1m) and Omega Life Membership Foundation Inc ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 18% and program service revenue 2.8% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $15k. At year end it held assets of $4.8m against liabilities of $50k, net assets of $4.8m.