Donnie Edwards Best Defense Foundation

Analysis

Donnie Edwards Best Defense Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Solana Beach, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Donnie Edwards Best Defense Foundation reported income of $2.1m and spending of $1.5m, leaving 28% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $592k to $2.1m (+258%), an average of +38% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 84%. Over the whole period it spent 70% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Donnie Edwards Best Defense Foundation sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mohammady Foundation ($2.1m), Growing Gardens ($2.1m) and Texas Pythian Home Foundation ($2.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $192k. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $397k, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 2 employees.