C4 Recovery Foundation

Analysis

C4 Recovery Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Algonquin, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2017, 9 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, C4 Recovery Foundation reported income of $1.1m and spending of $1.4m, spending 132% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $256k to $1.1m (+310%), an average of +42% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 512%. Over the whole period it spent 78% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, C4 Recovery Foundation sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 79th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Randy Caldwell Ministries Inc ($1.1m), Mentor Washington ($1.1m) and Foundation for Impact on Literacy and Learning Inc ($1.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $180k (13% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $160k. At year end it held assets of $775k against liabilities of $19k, net assets of $756k. It reported 5 employees.