Getting Better Foundation

Analysis

Getting Better Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Livingston, MT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 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, Getting Better Foundation reported income of $65k and spending of $533k, spending 819% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $313k to $65k (-79%), an average of -32% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 145%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Getting Better Foundation sits at the 32nd percentile: it is larger than about 32% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 26th percentile, and in the 22nd percentile within MT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include National Charity League Inc - Virginia Bluebell Chapter ($65k), New Hope Day Care Inc ($65k) and Hartford Family Foundation Inc ($65k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 63% and program service revenue 36% of the total. At year end it held assets of $424k against liabilities of $3,237, net assets of $421k.

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.