Palm Desert Middle School Foundation

Analysis

Palm Desert Middle School Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Palm Desert, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2014, 12 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 June 2024, Palm Desert Middle School Foundation reported income of $140k and spending of $145k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2024, income fell from $169k to $140k (-17%), an average of -3.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Palm Desert Middle School Foundation sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile, and in the 48th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kiwanis Club of Los Angeles International Airport Ca Foundatio ($140k), Kidds Foundation ($141k) and Karen P Nakon Breast Cancer Foundation ($140k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 3.2% of the total. At year end it held assets of $191k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $191k.