River Cats Foundation

Analysis

River Cats Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Sacramento, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 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 December 2023, River Cats Foundation reported income of $123k and spending of $104k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $243k to $123k (-49%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 545%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, River Cats Foundation sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile, and in the 44th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lionheart Charities Inc ($123k), LA Jolla Christmas Parade & Holiday Festival Foundation ($123k) and Sail Beyond Cancer VT Inc ($123k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 116% of the total. At year end it held assets of $97k against liabilities of $21k, net assets of $76k.