The Jennifer Bush-Lawson Foundation

Analysis

The Jennifer Bush-Lawson Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Falls Church, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 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 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, The Jennifer Bush-Lawson Foundation reported income of $118k and spending of $129k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $169k to $118k (-30%), an average of -8.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Jennifer Bush-Lawson Foundation sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile, and in the 41st percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Jacksonville Care Channel for the Needy Inc ($118k), Ibewjonnie Dawson Charitable Foundation Inc ($118k) and Zonta Club of Newport Harbor Foundation ($118k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 104% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $90k (70% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $73k against liabilities of $3,605, net assets of $69k. It reported 1 employees.