Council Grove Area Foundation

Analysis

Council Grove Area Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Council Grove, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2000, 26 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, Council Grove Area Foundation reported income of $533k and spending of $156k, leaving 71% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $213k to $533k (+151%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 872%. Over the whole period it spent 55% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Council Grove Area Foundation sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Peyton Walker Foundation ($533k), Eugenie Prendergast Trust ($533k) and American Friends of Areivim for Our Children ($533k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 76% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $23k. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.9m. It reported 1 employees.