Trillium Institute

Analysis

Trillium Institute is a registered charity in United States, based in Grand Rapids, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type i) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Trillium Institute reported income of $506k and spending of $618k, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $626k to $506k (-19%), an average of -5.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 324%. Over the whole period it spent 154% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Trillium Institute sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 70th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Nehemiah Project ($506k), Doniphan Darlings Inc ($506k) and Community Services Agency of South Texas Inc ($506k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $293k against liabilities of $138k, net assets of $155k.

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.