Cougar Foundation

Analysis

Cougar Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Clovis, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1988, 38 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 June 2024, Cougar Foundation reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.5m, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $935k to $1.6m (+76%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 187%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Cougar Foundation sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Midwest Health Foundation ($1.6m), Lehigh Valley United FC Soccer Club ($1.6m) and Savusavu Community Foundation ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 34% of the total. At year end it held assets of $854k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $854k.