Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation

Analysis

Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in San Francisco, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 June 2024, Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation reported income of $4.5m and spending of $5.6m, spending 125% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2024, income fell from $4.8m to $4.5m (-6.9%), an average of -1.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 327%. Over the whole period it spent 144% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gathering Inn ($4.5m), Kosciusko Community Y M C a Inc ($4.5m) and Advocates Against Family Violence Inc ($4.5m).

At year end it held assets of $6.5m against liabilities of $1.5m, net assets of $5.0m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.