Columbia United Jewish Welfare Federation

Analysis

Columbia United Jewish Welfare Federation is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbia, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1982, 44 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 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, Columbia United Jewish Welfare Federation reported income of $783k and spending of $731k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $694k to $783k (+13%), an average of +3.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Columbia United Jewish Welfare Federation sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 80th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include East Texas Angel Network Inc ($782k), Matat Mordechai ($784k) and Mann Charitable Foundation ($782k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $339k, net assets of $727k. It reported 6 employees.