Uplift Foundation

Analysis

Uplift Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Castle Rock, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2018, 8 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, Uplift Foundation reported income of $604k and spending of $1.1m, spending 186% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $10k to $604k (+5907%), an average of +178% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 18951%. Over the whole period it spent 128% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Uplift Foundation sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 71st percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Scentsy Family Foundation Inc ($604k), Happy 50 Plus Foundation ($604k) and Jewish Federation of Broome County Inc ($604k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $43k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $43k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.