Stephen Bufton Memorial Educational Fund

Analysis

Stephen Bufton Memorial Educational Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Leawood, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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 July 2024, Stephen Bufton Memorial Educational Fund reported income of $181k and spending of $190k, spending 105% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from July 2019 to July 2024, income fell from $289k to $181k (-37%), an average of -8.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2020, when income dropped by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Stephen Bufton Memorial Educational Fund sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 52nd percentile, and in the 51st percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Academy for Academic Excellence ($181k), Rockingham County Education Foundation ($181k) and Anderson Five Education Foundation ($181k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending July 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 76% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.3m.