Sierra Winds Charitable Foundation

Analysis

Sierra Winds Charitable Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Peoria, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1998, 28 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 supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending October 2023, Sierra Winds Charitable Foundation reported income of $68k and spending of $158k, spending 231% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2019 to October 2023, income fell from $143k to $68k (-52%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2022, when income dropped by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 138% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Sierra Winds Charitable Foundation sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 27th percentile, and in the 24th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Polk-Burnett Charities Inc ($68k), Anaheim Police Department Foundation ($68k) and National Charity League Inc Moonlight Chapter ($68k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending October 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 45% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $32k, net assets of $1.2m.