Chisholm Trail Communities Foundation

Analysis

Chisholm Trail Communities Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Georgetown, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1996, 30 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, Chisholm Trail Communities Foundation reported income of $3.2m and spending of $3.0m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.1m to $3.2m (+47%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 660%. Over the whole period it spent 34% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Chisholm Trail Communities Foundation sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include LA Plaza Inc ($3.1m), Kershaws Challenge ($3.2m) and Firespring Foundation ($3.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 47% and program service revenue 7.7% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $138k. At year end it held assets of $32.9m against liabilities of $955k, net assets of $32.0m. It reported 5 employees.