Kansas Bar Foundation

Analysis

Kansas Bar Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Topeka, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1960, 66 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. 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, Kansas Bar Foundation reported income of $606k and spending of $608k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $423k to $606k (+43%), an average of +9.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 141% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Kansas Bar Foundation sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 74th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Voice of Witness -A Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp ($605k), Community Adolescent Rehabilitation Effort for Change Inc ($606k) and Community Board Program ($605k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 6.9% and program service revenue 70% of the total. At year end it held assets of $4.6m against liabilities of $31k, net assets of $4.5m.

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.