Jerry and Paula Baker Foundationinc

Analysis

Jerry and Paula Baker Foundationinc is a registered charity in United States, based in Groveland, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2006, 20 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, Jerry and Paula Baker Foundationinc reported income of $477k and spending of $766k, spending 161% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $502k to $477k (-5.0%), an average of -1.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 67%. Over the whole period it spent 142% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Jerry and Paula Baker Foundationinc sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 71st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hands on New Orleans ($477k), New Life Counseling Inc ($477k) and Dir Biyaber Edir Mutual Assistance Association of Los Angeles ($476k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 59% and program service revenue 41% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $266k. At year end it held assets of $3.7m against liabilities of $5.2m, net assets of -$1.5m. It reported 26 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.