Forest and Found

Analysis

Forest and Found is a registered charity in United States, based in Lake Forest, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Forest and Found reported income of $219k and spending of $219k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $299k to $219k (-27%), an average of -7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Forest and Found sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Quality of Life Foundation Inc ($219k), Camp Patriot Corp ($219k) and Family Promise of Cowlitz County ($219k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 20% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $74k (34% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $71k against liabilities of $1,838, net assets of $69k. It reported 1 employees.