The Sumba Foundation

Analysis

The Sumba Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Heber City, UT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, The Sumba Foundation reported income of $1.7m and spending of $596k, leaving 66% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $538k to $1.7m (+223%), an average of +34% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 230%. Over the whole period it spent 76% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, The Sumba Foundation sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within UT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Partners for Care Inc ($1.7m), Paluz Corpss ($1.7m) and Healing Haiti ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.7m.