Emporia Community Foundation

Analysis

Emporia Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Emporia, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1996, 30 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, Emporia Community Foundation reported income of $5.6m and spending of $3.8m, leaving 32% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $8.3m to $5.6m (-33%), an average of -9.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 79%. Over the whole period it spent 61% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Emporia Community Foundation sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Schechter Institutes Inc ($5.6m), United Way of Kaw Valley Inc ($5.6m) and Association of State Floodplain Managers Inc ($5.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 87% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $154k (4.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $34k. At year end it held assets of $42.3m against liabilities of $159k, net assets of $42.2m. It reported 7 employees.