Giving Branch Foundation

Analysis

Giving Branch Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbia, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2020, 6 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, Giving Branch Foundation reported income of $1.0m and spending of $1.1m, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $440k to $1.0m (+128%), an average of +23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 147%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Giving Branch 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 79th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Barker Inc ($1.0m), Virginia Kimbrough Clark Reese & Thomas Matt Reese Trust ($1.0m) and Ginungagap Foundation ($1.0m).

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 $499k against liabilities of $4,340, net assets of $494k.

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.