C-Span Education Foundation

Analysis

C-Span Education Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1994, 32 years ago. 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 March 2023, C-Span Education Foundation reported income of $206k and spending of $138k, leaving 33% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2019 to March 2023, income fell from $216k to $206k (-4.8%), an average of -1.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 84%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, C-Span Education Foundation sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile, and in the 30th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Reading Co Technical Historical Soc Iety Inc ($206k), State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse Nursing ($206k) and Wichita Adult Literacy Council ($206k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 49% of the total. At year end it held assets of $4.7m against liabilities of $99k, net assets of $4.6m.