Columbus Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation

Analysis

Columbus Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbus, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2010, 16 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, Columbus Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation reported income of $108k and spending of $110k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $70k to $108k (+55%), an average of +9.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 113%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Columbus Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile, and in the 39th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Broomfield Rotary Foundation ($108k), Plus Wonder Inc ($109k) and Maury County Association of School Resource Officers Inc ($108k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $144k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $144k.