Federal Communications Bar Association Foundation

Analysis

Federal Communications Bar Association Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1991, 35 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 June 2023, Federal Communications Bar Association Foundation reported income of $426k and spending of $441k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $517k to $426k (-18%), an average of -4.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Federal Communications Bar Association Foundation sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 41st percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Door Cancer Inc ($426k), Lone Star Families Foundation ($426k) and Powerquest Worldwide Ltd ($426k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.0m against liabilities of $778k, net assets of $222k.

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.