Dekalb County Community Foundation Inc

Analysis

Dekalb County Community Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Auburn, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1996, 30 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, Dekalb County Community Foundation Inc reported income of $2.6m and spending of $2.0m, leaving 23% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $4.8m to $2.6m (-46%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 67%. Over the whole period it spent 57% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Dekalb County Community Foundation Inc sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Good Shepherd Fund ($2.5m), Friends of Hopewell House ($2.6m) and Center for Nonprofit Excellence ($2.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 49% and program service revenue 14% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $89k (4.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $183k. At year end it held assets of $25.3m against liabilities of $2.5m, net assets of $22.8m. It reported 7 employees.