Ida Cason Callaway Foundation

Analysis

Ida Cason Callaway Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Pine Mountain, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1975, 51 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2022, Ida Cason Callaway Foundation reported income of $2.3m and spending of $9.6m, spending 413% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $6.7m to $2.3m (-65%), an average of -30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 268%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Ida Cason Callaway Foundation sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sustainable Harvest International ($2.3m), Vida Verde Nature Education ($2.3m) and Adirondack Council Inc ($2.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 4.8% and program service revenue 362% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $215k (2.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.8m. At year end it held assets of $34.1m against liabilities of $3.9m, net assets of $30.2m. It reported 373 employees.