Sarala Bathena Foundation

Analysis

Sarala Bathena Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in South Brunswick, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2014, 12 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Sarala Bathena Foundation reported income of $428k and spending of $32k, leaving 93% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $184k to $428k (+132%), an average of +52% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 88%. Over the whole period it spent 12% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Sarala Bathena Foundation sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Foundation for Packaging Education ($428k), Rona Barrett Foundation ($428k) and Marshall Christensen Foundation for International Higher Education ($428k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 54% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.1m.