Sewanee Community Chest

Analysis

Sewanee Community Chest is a registered charity in United States, based in Sewanee, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1980, 46 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, Sewanee Community Chest reported income of $123k and spending of $115k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $107k to $123k (+15%), an average of +15% a year. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Sewanee Community Chest sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile, and in the 42nd percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Motion Picture Bookers Club Foundation ($123k), 141 Impact Inc ($123k) and Shopmonkey Foundation ($123k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% of the total. At year end it held assets of $267k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $267k.