Critical Role Foundation

Analysis

Critical Role Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Burbank, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2019, 7 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, Critical Role Foundation reported income of $801k and spending of $872k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $377k to $801k (+112%), an average of +29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 125%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Critical Role Foundation sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include 4th Dimension Sobriety Inc ($801k), Pathways Community Support Services Inc ($802k) and West Valley Arts and Cultural Found Ation ($800k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $244k against liabilities of $169k, net assets of $75k.

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.