Starkville Community Foundation

Analysis

Starkville Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Starkville, MS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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, Starkville Community Foundation reported income of $63k and spending of $79k, spending 126% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $74k to $63k (-15%), an average of -5.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Starkville Community Foundation sits at the 27th percentile: it is larger than about 27% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 25th percentile, and in the 26th percentile within MS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Parent Booster USA Inc ($63k), Maggie Welby Foundation ($63k) and Tonatierra Community Development Institute ($63k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $15k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $15k.