Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Foundation

Analysis

Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Birmingham, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1998, 28 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Foundation reported income of $832k and spending of $678k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.3m to $832k (-35%), an average of -10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 68%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Foundation sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 80th percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Glioblastoma Research Organization Inc ($832k), George C Wallace State Community College Foundation ($832k) and Lees Summit Educational Foundation Inc ($832k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 15% and program service revenue 85% of the total. At year end it held assets of $806k against liabilities of $264k, net assets of $542k.