The Tin Whistles Scholarship Foundation

Analysis

The Tin Whistles Scholarship Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Pinehurst, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1979, 47 years ago. 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, The Tin Whistles Scholarship Foundation reported income of $331k and spending of $184k, leaving 45% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $171k to $331k (+94%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 363%. Over the whole period it spent 58% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, The Tin Whistles Scholarship Foundation sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile, and in the 62nd percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Eventide Living Center ($331k), Happy Hollow Vacation Bible Camp ($331k) and Monmouth Park Charity Fund Inc ($331k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 57% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $223k, net assets of $913k.