Ventura County Sheriffs Foundation

Analysis

Ventura County Sheriffs Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Camarillo, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2006, 20 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, Ventura County Sheriffs Foundation reported income of $494k and spending of $309k, leaving 37% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $415k to $494k (+19%), an average of +4.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 387%. Over the whole period it spent 67% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Ventura County Sheriffs Foundation sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Leelanau Township Community Foundation Inc ($494k), Sports Creative Foundation ($494k) and Friends of Chikumbuso Inc ($494k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.3m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.3m.