Cary Brown Family Foundation

Analysis

Cary Brown Family Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Colorado SPGS, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2005, 21 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 supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Cary Brown Family Foundation reported income of $6.1m and spending of $5.5m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $867k to $6.1m (+609%), an average of +63% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 236%. Over the whole period it spent 134% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Cary Brown Family Foundation sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 94th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado ($6.1m), TSF Services ($6.2m) and Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Incorporated ($6.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 85% of the total. At year end it held assets of $14.0m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $14.0m.