Self Enhancement Foundation

Analysis

Self Enhancement Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Portland, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2002, 24 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 supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Self Enhancement Foundation reported income of $152k and spending of $1.1m, spending 739% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $868k to $152k (-83%), an average of -35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 835%. Over the whole period it spent 194% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Self Enhancement Foundation sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile, and in the 48th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Aruna Partnership Inc ($152k), Diaspora Foundation ($152k) and Cleveland Community Fund ($152k).

At year end it held assets of $18.9m against liabilities of $7,653, net assets of $18.8m.