Exceptional Foresters Incorporated

Analysis

Exceptional Foresters Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Shelton, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1967, 59 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Exceptional Foresters Incorporated reported income of $12.0m and spending of $12.5m, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $7.6m to $12.0m (+58%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Exceptional Foresters Incorporated 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 96th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kids After Hours Child Care Centers ($12.0m), Hope Network ($12.0m) and Arizona Retirement Centers Inc Sierra Winds Life Care Community ($12.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.0% and program service revenue 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $274k (2.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $9.3m. At year end it held assets of $8.6m against liabilities of $1.9m, net assets of $6.7m. It reported 304 employees.