Windermere Foundation

Analysis

Windermere Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Seattle, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1989, 37 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, Windermere Foundation reported income of $2.4m and spending of $3.2m, spending 134% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.8m to $2.4m (-15%), an average of -4.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Windermere Foundation sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Unity Partners ($2.4m), Tillamook County Community Action Resource Enterprises Inc ($2.4m) and Flathead Food Bank Inc ($2.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 121% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.3m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.3m.