The Hide and Seek Foundation

Analysis

The Hide and Seek Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Sherman Oaks, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1999, 27 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, The Hide and Seek Foundation reported income of $239k and spending of $361k, spending 151% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $434k to $239k (-45%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 83% 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 Hide and Seek Foundation sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 60th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Katan Foundation Inc ($238k), The Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors Charitable Foundation Inc ($239k) and Impact 100 East Bay Inc ($238k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $3,517. At year end it held assets of $684k against liabilities of $14k, net assets of $670k.