Sweet Home Community Foundation

Analysis

Sweet Home Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Sweet Home, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2000, 26 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 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, Sweet Home Community Foundation reported income of $364k and spending of $43k, leaving 88% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $111k to $364k (+227%), an average of +34% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 733%. Over the whole period it spent 15% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Sweet Home Community Foundation sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 65th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Colorado Knights of Columbus Charities Fund Inc ($364k), Ellijay Lions Club Charities Inc ($365k) and United Way of Yuma County Inc ($364k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $19k, net assets of $1.5m.