William Mason Harding and Rosina Fairman Harding Foundation

Analysis

William Mason Harding and Rosina Fairman Harding Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1997, 29 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 supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, William Mason Harding and Rosina Fairman Harding Foundation reported income of $428k and spending of $585k, spending 137% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $983k to $428k (-56%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 707%. 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, William Mason Harding and Rosina Fairman Harding Foundation sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ananta Giving Foundation ($428k), United Way of Hernando County Inc ($429k) and Rona Barrett Foundation ($428k).

Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $120k (20% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $16.6m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $16.6m.