Trends Charitable Fund

Analysis

Trends Charitable Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Scottsdale, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1996, 30 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, Trends Charitable Fund reported income of $390k and spending of $428k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $303k to $390k (+29%), an average of +8.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 112%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Trends Charitable Fund sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 64th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Alleghany Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc ($389k), Hastings Catholic Schools - B L U E Inc ($390k) and Everyone for Veterans ($389k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 145% of the total. At year end it held assets of $85k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $85k.