Jim Catfish Hunter ALS Foundation

Analysis

Jim Catfish Hunter ALS Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Hertford, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover medical research, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Jim Catfish Hunter ALS Foundation reported income of $90k and spending of $136k, spending 151% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $146k to $90k (-38%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 67%. Over the whole period it spent 154% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Jim Catfish Hunter ALS Foundation sits at the 26th percentile: it is larger than about 26% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile, and in the 32nd percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Medical Device Battery Transport Council Inc ($90k), Provincetown Round-Up Inc ($90k) and Japanese Medical Support Network Inc ($90k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 55% and program service revenue 37% of the total. At year end it held assets of $400k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $400k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.