Pipeliners Voluntary Fund

Analysis

Pipeliners Voluntary Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Tulsa, OK. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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, Pipeliners Voluntary Fund reported income of $758k and spending of $769k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.2m to $758k (-35%), an average of -10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 146% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Pipeliners Voluntary Fund sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within OK. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Keene Montessori School ($758k), Convivial Learning Inc ($758k) and Joplin Regional Medical School Alliance ($758k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 82% of the total. At year end it held assets of $4.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $4.2m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.