Community Enhancement Foundation of Plains

Analysis

Community Enhancement Foundation of Plains is a registered charity in United States, based in Plains, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2012, 14 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, Community Enhancement Foundation of Plains reported income of $304k and spending of $382k, spending 126% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $78k to $304k (+290%), an average of +31% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 256%. Over the whole period it spent 119% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Community Enhancement Foundation of Plains sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 62nd percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dream Bikes Inc ($304k), Magic Grants ($304k) and Mabel E Sherman Educational Fund ($304k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 33% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $118k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $1.5m, net assets of $292k. It reported 30 employees.

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.