Clayton Community Foundation

Analysis

Clayton Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Louis, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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, Clayton Community Foundation reported income of $469k and spending of $607k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income grew from $196k to $469k (+140%), an average of +34% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 75%. Over the whole period it spent 129% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Clayton Community Foundation sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Arsag International Inc ($469k), University City Foundation Inc ($469k) and The Downtown Shareholders of Kansas City Kansas Inc ($468k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 56% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.3m against liabilities of $1.2m, net assets of $2.1m.

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.