Bay Area Council Foundation

Analysis

Bay Area Council Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in San Francisco, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2005, 21 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 December 2023, Bay Area Council Foundation reported income of $4.8m and spending of $7.1m, spending 149% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.3m to $4.8m (+108%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 110%. Over the whole period it spent 67% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Bay Area Council Foundation sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gateway Residential Programs ($4.8m), Safe Harbor Crisis Center ($4.8m) and Friends Services for the Aging ($4.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 76% and program service revenue 13% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $970k. At year end it held assets of $46.0m against liabilities of $36.8m, net assets of $9.2m.