Shadows Foundation

Analysis

Shadows Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Flagstaff, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Shadows Foundation reported income of $453k and spending of $471k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $270k to $453k (+68%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Shadows Foundation 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 69th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ronald McDonald House of Dallas Endowment Foundation ($453k), Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc ($453k) and Eagle Mount Great Falls ($453k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 29% and program service revenue 71% of the total. At year end it held assets of $37k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $37k.