Kauai North Shore Community Foundation

Analysis

Kauai North Shore Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Princeville, HI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2013, 13 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 December 2023, Kauai North Shore Community Foundation reported income of $288k and spending of $517k, spending 179% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $529k to $288k (-46%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Kauai North Shore Community Foundation sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 59th percentile within HI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Charitable Division of the Rotary Club of Portsmouth New Hampshire ($288k), Mandan Public Schools Foundation for Education ($288k) and Solti Foundation ($288k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% and program service revenue 2.7% of the total. It paid $2,250 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $587k against liabilities of $335, net assets of $587k.