Community Service Foundation Trust

Analysis

Community Service Foundation Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Birmingham, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Community Service Foundation Trust reported income of $54k and spending of $68k, spending 125% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $36k to $54k (+51%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 794%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Community Service Foundation Trust sits at the 22nd percentile: it is larger than about 22% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 21st percentile, and in the 20th percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include RBRC II Inc ($54k), Daves Marketplace Charitable Fund ($54k) and Yankton Thrive Foundation Inc ($54k).

Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $13k (19% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.1m.