Carry the Load

Analysis

Carry the Load is a registered charity in United States, based in Dallas, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2012, 14 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 August 2023, Carry the Load reported income of $4.4m and spending of $4.8m, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $3.7m to $4.4m (+19%), an average of +4.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2021, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Carry the Load sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 94th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bend the Arc-A Jewish Partnership for Justice ($4.4m), R E B Foundation ($4.4m) and Cambridge Charitable Foundation ($4.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $945k. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $29k, net assets of $1.9m. It reported 12 employees.