Best of the Batch Foundation

Analysis

Best of the Batch Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Munhall, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2000, 26 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, Best of the Batch Foundation reported income of $1.9m and spending of $1.7m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.3m to $1.9m (-20%), an average of -5.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 46% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Best of the Batch Foundation sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Native American Community Academy Foundation ($1.9m), Zach Johnson Foundation ($1.9m) and Colorado Open Golf Foundation ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% and program service revenue 0.4% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $85k (4.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $170k. At year end it held assets of $13.7m against liabilities of $5.5m, net assets of $8.2m. It reported 15 employees.