Christopher P Gardner Foundation Incorporated

Analysis

Christopher P Gardner Foundation Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. 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, Christopher P Gardner Foundation Incorporated reported income of $476k and spending of $441k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $374k to $476k (+27%), an average of +6.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 75%. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Christopher P Gardner Foundation Incorporated sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Northern Virginia Mediation Service Inc ($476k), Keeping Identities Safe ($476k) and Build Our Center ($476k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 72% of the total. At year end it held assets of $50k against liabilities of $26k, net assets of $24k.