The Missouri Dental Foundation

Analysis

The Missouri Dental Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Jefferson City, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1978, 48 years ago. 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, The Missouri Dental Foundation reported income of $67k and spending of $103k, spending 155% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $224k to $67k (-70%), an average of -26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 75%. Over the whole period it spent 155% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, The Missouri Dental Foundation sits at the 26th percentile: it is larger than about 26% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 26th percentile, and in the 24th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Laramie Peak Fire Zone Foundation ($67k), Sara and Morton Brodsky Family Foundation Inc ($67k) and PTA Texas Congress ($67k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 60% of the total. At year end it held assets of $632k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $632k.

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.