The Pearl Fund

Analysis

The Pearl Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Portland, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2011, 15 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2024, The Pearl Fund reported income of $53k and spending of $39k, leaving 26% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2024, income grew from $21k to $53k (+150%), an average of +58% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 118%. Over the whole period it spent 114% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Pearl Fund sits at the 26th percentile: it is larger than about 26% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 21st percentile, and in the 18th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Win Together TR ($53k), Palm Beach Childrens Chorus Inc ($53k) and Colorado Business Development Foundation ($53k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 50% of the total. At year end it held assets of $191k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $191k.