The Tiffin Community Foundation

Analysis

The Tiffin Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Tiffin, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 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 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, The Tiffin Community Foundation reported income of $2.5m and spending of $1.2m, leaving 50% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $2.5m (+78%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 48% 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 Tiffin Community Foundation sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Midwood Special Education Services Inc ($2.5m), United Way of the Valley & Greater Utica Area Inc ($2.5m) and Chive Charities ($2.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 66% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $126k. At year end it held assets of $31.7m against liabilities of $7.7m, net assets of $24.0m. It reported 3 employees.