Kiawah Cares Foundation

Analysis

Kiawah Cares Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Johns Island, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 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 (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2024, Kiawah Cares Foundation reported income of $308k and spending of $327k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2024, income fell from $518k to $308k (-40%), an average of -9.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income dropped by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Kiawah Cares Foundation sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 67th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Houston Diesels Inc ($308k), Greater Houston Community Foundation ($308k) and Quality of Life Foundation ($308k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $405k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $405k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.