The Lefevre Foundation

Analysis

The Lefevre Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Newark, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1985, 41 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 August 2023, The Lefevre Foundation reported income of $931k and spending of $622k, leaving 33% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income fell from $1.2m to $931k (-21%), an average of -5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2021, when income rose by 102%. Over the whole period it spent 36% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Lefevre Foundation sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 79th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Catholic Education Endowment Trust ($930k), Laxer Family Foundation Inc ($932k) and Luria Foundation ($930k).

At year end it held assets of $29.5m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $29.5m.