Ascend Cares Foundation

Analysis

Ascend Cares Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public safety, disaster preparedness and relief, which this site groups under armed forces, emergency and public safety. 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, Ascend Cares Foundation reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.9m, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $847k to $1.7m (+105%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 9,128 United States charities whose main cause is armed forces, emergency and public safety and that reported income, Ascend Cares Foundation sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Easton Emergency Squad ($1.7m), Healthy Start Community Coalition of Okaloosa-Walton Counties Inc ($1.7m) and District 2 Fire and Rescue ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 83% of the total. At year end it held assets of $319k against liabilities of $53k, net assets of $266k.