Data Foundation Inc

Analysis

Data Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Data Foundation Inc reported income of $447k and spending of $235k, leaving 47% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $242k to $447k (+85%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2019, when income rose by 134%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Data Foundation Inc sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Live Thankfully Little Rock ($447k), Epilepsy Coalition of New York State Inc ($447k) and For the Village Inc ($447k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 50% of the total. At year end it held assets of $0 against liabilities of $0, net assets of $0.