Celebrity Waiters Luncheon

Analysis

Celebrity Waiters Luncheon is a registered charity in United States, based in Mercer Island, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2012, 14 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 August 2023, Celebrity Waiters Luncheon reported income of $527k and spending of $509k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $187k to $527k (+182%), an average of +30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2021, when income rose by 508%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Celebrity Waiters Luncheon sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 70th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pikes Peak Range Riders Foundation ($527k), Thrive in Southern New Mexico ($527k) and LA Gonave Haiti Partners Inc ($526k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 101% of the total. It paid $28k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $204k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $204k.