Contextos NFP

Analysis

Contextos NFP is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, Contextos NFP reported income of $2.1m and spending of $1.9m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $2.1m (+50%), an average of +8.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 58%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Contextos NFP sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Child Aid ($2.1m), National Committee on American Foreign Policy Inc ($2.1m) and Charles Antetokounmpo Family Foundation ($2.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 72% and program service revenue 20% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $475k against liabilities of $55k, net assets of $420k.