America Gives Inc

Analysis

America Gives Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in New York, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2009, 17 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, America Gives Inc reported income of $34.3m and spending of $35.7m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $7.7m to $34.3m (+343%), an average of +45% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 288%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, America Gives Inc sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include JFMC Facilities Corporation ($34.3m), United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc ($34.6m) and Central New York Community Foundation Inc ($34.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $1.8m, net assets of $295k.