Andrew Weishar Foundation

Analysis

Andrew Weishar Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2014, 12 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Andrew Weishar Foundation reported income of $767k and spending of $727k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $685k to $767k (+12%), an average of +2.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Andrew Weishar Foundation sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Non-Profit Management Solutions ($767k), Covered Corporation ($767k) and Jewish Community of Ottawa Development Foundation ($766k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 49% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $66k (9.1% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.3m.