Score Foundation

Analysis

Score Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1996, 30 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 supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending September 2023, Score Foundation reported income of $2.2m and spending of $1.9m, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $2.2m (+90%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2020, when income rose by 60%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Score Foundation sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Telecompioneers ($2.2m), Eric and Tamar Goldstein Foundation ($2.2m) and Hargraves Outreach Inc ($2.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $319k (17% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $352k. At year end it held assets of $2.4m against liabilities of $917k, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 20 employees.