Please Foundation

Analysis

Please Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in New Orleans, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover youth development, which this site groups under children and youth development. 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, Please Foundation reported income of $1.0m and spending of $805k, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $268k to $1.0m (+285%), an average of +40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 95%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 14,332 United States charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Please Foundation sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 79th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include 17management Inc ($1.0m), Odyssey Teen Camp Inc ($1.0m) and National Youth Leadership Council ($1.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $96k. At year end it held assets of $338k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $338k. It reported 2 employees.