Rainforest Cafe Friends of the Future Foundation

Analysis

Rainforest Cafe Friends of the Future Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1999, 27 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 2022, Rainforest Cafe Friends of the Future Foundation reported income of $218k and spending of $122k, leaving 44% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2022, income fell from $378k to $218k (-42%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 156%. Over the whole period it spent 257% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Rainforest Cafe Friends of the Future Foundation sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 59th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Howell Mountain Wine Auction ($218k), Deron Cherry Charitable Foundation ($218k) and Sheyenne Valley Community Foundation ($217k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 83% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.7m.