Muskingum County Community Foundation

Analysis

Muskingum County Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Zanesville, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1986, 40 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 December 2023, Muskingum County Community Foundation reported income of $4.9m and spending of $2.8m, leaving 43% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $3.2m to $4.9m (+54%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Muskingum County Community Foundation sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Roberts Family Development Center ($4.9m), We Take It for Charity Inc ($4.9m) and Dignity and Power Now ($4.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 53% and program service revenue 6.1% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $101k (3.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $336k. At year end it held assets of $32.7m against liabilities of $1.5m, net assets of $31.2m. It reported 8 employees.