The Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation

Analysis

The Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Findlay, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1992, 34 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 Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation reported income of $8.9m and spending of $7.3m, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $5.7m to $8.9m (+58%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 136%. Over the whole period it spent 72% 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 Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Greater Lafayette Community Foundation ($8.9m), The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc ($9.0m) and The Crystal Charity Ball ($8.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 34% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $347k (4.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $713k. At year end it held assets of $158.6m against liabilities of $7.5m, net assets of $151.1m. It reported 13 employees.