The Hornbuckle Foundation

Analysis

The Hornbuckle Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Littleton, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, The Hornbuckle Foundation reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.4m, spending 80% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $539k to $1.7m (+220%), an average of +79% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 179%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Hornbuckle Foundation sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Alzheimers Disease Association of Kern County Inc ($1.7m), Fenix Family Health Center Inc ($1.7m) and Woodbridge Township Ambulance and Rescue Squad Inc ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 85% and program service revenue 15% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $247k (18% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $14k. At year end it held assets of $971k against liabilities of $470k, net assets of $502k. It reported 3 employees.