Jamestown Foundation Inc

Analysis

Jamestown Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Atlanta, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 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, Jamestown Foundation Inc reported income of $491k and spending of $468k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.0m to $491k (-75%), an average of -30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 81%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Jamestown Foundation Inc sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 74th percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include International Cardioncology Society of North America Inc ($490k), Wisconsin Elks Benevolent Fund Inc ($491k) and Chariton County Community Foundation ($490k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $43k. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $52k, net assets of $1.0m.