Sanilac County Community Foundation

Analysis

Sanilac County Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Sandusky, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1995, 31 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, Sanilac County Community Foundation reported income of $1.3m and spending of $782k, leaving 40% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.7m to $1.3m (-23%), an average of -6.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 44% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Sanilac County Community Foundation sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Catalytic Impact Foundation Inc ($1.3m), Dogtopia Foundation ($1.3m) and Jack G Buncher Charitable Fund Forthe Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 61% of the total. At year end it held assets of $11.4m against liabilities of $614k, net assets of $10.7m.