Bill Graham Memorial Foundation

Analysis

Bill Graham Memorial Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2008, 18 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, Bill Graham Memorial Foundation reported income of $160k and spending of $188k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $211k to $160k (-24%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Bill Graham Memorial Foundation sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile, and in the 51st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Stanislaus County Office of Education Charitable Foundation ($160k), Westminster Foundation ($160k) and Ainsworth Foundation ($160k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $175k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $175k.