Calvin Community Foundation

Analysis

Calvin Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Des Moines, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2002, 24 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 April 2023, Calvin Community Foundation reported income of $260k and spending of $652k, spending 251% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2019 to April 2023, income grew from $155k to $260k (+68%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 153% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Calvin Community Foundation sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 60th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sandhills Out Reach Charity ($260k), Franklin Township Soccer Club Inc ($260k) and Affinity Federal Credit Union Foundation Inc ($260k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending April 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 17% of the total. At year end it held assets of $486k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $486k.