Salem Leadership Foundation

Analysis

Salem Leadership Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Salem, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1997, 29 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 September 2023, Salem Leadership Foundation reported income of $988k and spending of $851k, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $678k to $988k (+46%), an average of +9.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 101%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Salem Leadership Foundation sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 80th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Society of St Vincent de Paul St Joseph Conference West Branch ($988k), Montmorency County Commission on Aging ($988k) and Forster Woods Adult Day Services ($987k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 68% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $610k. At year end it held assets of $561k against liabilities of $41k, net assets of $520k. It reported 13 employees.