Dismas Charities Foundation Inc

Analysis

Dismas Charities Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Louisville, KY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1997, 29 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 supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Dismas Charities Foundation Inc reported income of $1.0m and spending of $402k, leaving 60% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $691k to $1.0m (+47%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 105%. Over the whole period it spent 37% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Dismas Charities Foundation Inc sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 80th percentile within KY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Christian Academy of Louisville Foundation Inc ($1.0m), Bay Valley Foundation ($1.0m) and Cadillac Area Community Foundation ($1.0m).

At year end it held assets of $25.4m against liabilities of $330k, net assets of $25.1m.