Friends of Shanghai American School Foundation

Analysis

Friends of Shanghai American School Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Princeton, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, Friends of Shanghai American School Foundation reported income of $67k and spending of $587k, spending 882% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $163k to $67k (-59%), an average of -20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 166% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Friends of Shanghai American School Foundation sits at the 23rd percentile: it is larger than about 23% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 26th percentile, and in the 33rd percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Eternal Hope International ($67k), Creative Armenia ($67k) and Education and More Corporation ($67k).

At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $1,350, net assets of $1.3m.