Oak Alley Foundation

Analysis

Oak Alley Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Vacherie, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1967, 59 years ago. 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, Oak Alley Foundation reported income of $4.4m and spending of $3.8m, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $5.4m to $4.4m (-18%), an average of -4.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 111%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Oak Alley Foundation sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 91st percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Alamance Christian School Inc ($4.4m), Feminist Womens Health Center Inc ($4.4m) and Edge New Jersey Inc ($4.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $8.4m against liabilities of $127k, net assets of $8.3m. It reported 64 employees.