First Look for Charity Foundation

Analysis

First Look for Charity Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Oakbrook Ter, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2005, 21 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 June 2023, First Look for Charity Foundation reported income of $2.4m and spending of $2.4m, spending 100% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income fell from $3.4m to $2.4m (-31%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, First Look for Charity Foundation sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include River Region United Way ($2.4m), Boston Womens Fund Inc ($2.4m) and MBCH Foundation ($2.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 120% of the total. At year end it held assets of $25k against liabilities of $25k, net assets of $0.