Griffin-Spalding County United Way

Analysis

Griffin-Spalding County United Way is a registered charity in United States, based in Griffin, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1945, 81 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, Griffin-Spalding County United Way reported income of $258k and spending of $225k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income fell from $364k to $258k (-29%), an average of -6.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Griffin-Spalding County United Way sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Soundcheck Prevention Network ($258k), Bedford Lions Club Charities Inc ($258k) and Cedar Hill Cemetery Foundation Inc ($258k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 84% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $34k (15% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.2m.