WG and JB Manson Charitable Trust

Analysis

WG and JB Manson Charitable Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Pompano Beach, FL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2015, 11 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 supporting organisation (type iii functionally integrated) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, WG and JB Manson Charitable Trust reported income of $641k and spending of $676k, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $792k to $641k (-19%), an average of -5.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, WG and JB Manson Charitable Trust sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within FL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Yeshiva Kneses Hatorah Inc ($641k), Peoria School District 150 Foundation ($642k) and Tudor Place Foundation Inc 2 ($641k).

Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $79k (12% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $11.3m against liabilities of $266k, net assets of $11.0m.