Community Foundation of Fayette County Pennsylvania

Analysis

Community Foundation of Fayette County Pennsylvania is a registered charity in United States, based in Uniontown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2000, 26 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, Community Foundation of Fayette County Pennsylvania reported income of $2.8m and spending of $1.7m, leaving 37% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $3.4m to $2.8m (-19%), an average of -5.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 140%. Over the whole period it spent 52% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Community Foundation of Fayette County Pennsylvania sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Our Change Foundation ($2.8m), Vitalogy Foundation ($2.8m) and League of California Community Foundations ($2.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 56% and program service revenue 1.5% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $94k (5.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $121k. At year end it held assets of $24.2m against liabilities of $4.3m, net assets of $19.8m. It reported 5 employees.