Trust for the Americas

Analysis

Trust for the Americas is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1999, 27 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, Trust for the Americas reported income of $3.2m and spending of $4.4m, spending 139% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $3.1m to $3.2m (+2.4%), an average of +0.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 74%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Trust for the Americas sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 74th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Junior Achievement of Greater Boston Inc ($3.2m), Sustainable Sciences Institute ($3.2m) and Build a School Initiatives in Africa Inc ($3.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $3.0m against liabilities of $374k, net assets of $2.6m. It reported 2 employees.