Robert H Tannahill Foundation

Analysis

Robert H Tannahill Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Detroit, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 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 supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Robert H Tannahill Foundation reported income of $1.4m and spending of $3.7m, spending 258% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.8m to $1.4m (-19%), an average of -5.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 184%. Over the whole period it spent 144% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Robert H Tannahill Foundation sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lev Lalev Inc ($1.4m), Methodist Home for Children Foundation ($1.4m) and Bare Essentials Home Care Inc ($1.4m).

At year end it held assets of $57.2m against liabilities of $5.2m, net assets of $52.0m.