Community Foundation of Jackson County

Analysis

Community Foundation of Jackson County is a registered charity in United States, based in Maquoketa, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1983, 43 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, Community Foundation of Jackson County reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.5m, spending 124% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $200k to $1.2m (+511%), an average of +57% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 625%. Over the whole period it spent 122% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Community Foundation of Jackson County 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 81st percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Beth Aba TR ($1.2m), Thielen Foundation Inc ($1.2m) and Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 6.8% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.3m against liabilities of $85k, net assets of $2.2m.

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.