Joseph and Leslie Carr Foundation

Analysis

Joseph and Leslie Carr Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Lancaster, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Joseph and Leslie Carr Foundation reported income of $82k and spending of $80k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $98k to $82k (-16%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Joseph and Leslie Carr Foundation sits at the 28th percentile: it is larger than about 28% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile, and in the 39th percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Better Optionstn ($82k), Second Hand Rose for Charity of Clarendon County Inc ($82k) and Community Outreach Resources Exchange ($82k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 27% of the total. At year end it held assets of $22k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $22k.