E J and Lenore Kaiser and David E Gerlach Foundation

Analysis

E J and Lenore Kaiser and David E Gerlach Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Huntington, WV. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2003, 23 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, E J and Lenore Kaiser and David E Gerlach Foundation reported income of $216k and spending of $59k, leaving 73% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $164k to $216k (+32%), an average of +7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 6.6% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, E J and Lenore Kaiser and David E Gerlach Foundation sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 53rd percentile within WV. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hats and Mittens Association ($216k), Hat Club ($216k) and Sharing the Vision Inc ($216k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $4,538. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 3 employees.