The Community Foundation for Crawford County

Analysis

The Community Foundation for Crawford County is a registered charity in United States, based in Bucyrus, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 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 Community Foundation for Crawford County reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.2m, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.5m (+23%), an average of +5.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 67% 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 Community Foundation for Crawford County sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Barney & Rachel Gottstein Char Foundation ($1.5m), Ashland Legacy TR ($1.5m) and Sadr Foundation ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 36% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $88k (7.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $58k. At year end it held assets of $26.1m against liabilities of $1.2m, net assets of $24.9m. It reported 6 employees.