CKS Foundation

Analysis

CKS Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Dallas, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2025. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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 June 2023, CKS Foundation reported income of $2.7m and spending of $34k, leaving 99% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $3.7m to $2.7m (-29%), an average of -8.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income dropped by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 1.2% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, CKS Foundation sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Christian Life Preparatory School ($2.6m), Friends of Fullerton College ($2.7m) and Knoxville Jewish Alliance Inc ($2.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 70% of the total. At year end it held assets of $31.3m against liabilities of $36k, net assets of $31.2m.