Brewers Community Foundation

Analysis

Brewers Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Milwaukee, WI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 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, Brewers Community Foundation reported income of $2.7m and spending of $2.3m, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.7m to $2.7m (-1.1%), an average of -0.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Brewers Community Foundation sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Nashville State Community College Foundation ($2.6m), Sonora Area Foundation ($2.7m) and Community Foundation of Boone County Inc ($2.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 53% of the total. At year end it held assets of $7.3m against liabilities of $211k, net assets of $7.1m.