Gorge Community Foundation

Analysis

Gorge Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Hood River, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 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 June 2023, Gorge Community Foundation reported income of $879k and spending of $701k, leaving 20% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $360k to $879k (+144%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 192%. Over the whole period it spent 65% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Gorge Community Foundation sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 79th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Compassionate Care Givers Inc ($878k), My Tribute Gift Foundation Inc ($879k) and Bushy Park Foundation Trust ($876k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 78% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $36k. At year end it held assets of $8.0m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $8.0m. It reported 1 employees.