Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona

Analysis

Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona is a registered charity in United States, based in Tucson, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1993, 33 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, Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona reported income of $10.2m and spending of $18.2m, spending 179% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $17.8m to $10.2m (-43%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 105%. Over the whole period it spent 74% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 94th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Door County Community Foundation Inc ($10.2m), Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc ($10.2m) and Cambridge Community Foundation ($10.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 56% and program service revenue 2.7% of the total. At year end it held assets of $154.4m against liabilities of $44.6m, net assets of $109.8m.