The Council Foundation

Analysis

The Council Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover unknown, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, The Council Foundation reported income of $735k and spending of $608k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $679k to $735k (+8.2%), an average of +2.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, The Council 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 76th percentile, and in the 50th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Palm Beach Country Club Foundation Inc ($735k), Titusville Development Corporation Inc ($735k) and Boy Scouts of America ($735k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 76% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.4m against liabilities of $46k, net assets of $3.4m.