Barrington Area Community Foundation

Analysis

Barrington Area Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Barrington, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 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, Barrington Area Community Foundation reported income of $457k and spending of $425k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $488k to $457k (-6.3%), an average of -1.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 81%. Over the whole period it spent 51% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Barrington Area Community Foundation sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dalrc Retiree Assistance Program Inc ($457k), Roger Clemens Foundation ($457k) and Fried Family Fund ($456k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 73% of the total. At year end it held assets of $9.2m against liabilities of $2,379, net assets of $9.2m.