Bay Area Community Land Trust

Analysis

Bay Area Community Land Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover housing and shelter, which this site groups under housing and shelter. 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 Community Land Trust reported income of $636k and spending of $928k, spending 146% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.2m to $636k (-47%), an average of -15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 64%. Over the whole period it spent 76% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Bay Area Community Land Trust sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Liberty Towers Incorporated of Clarion ($636k), Ahepa 192 Inc ($636k) and Fourth Street Senior Citizen Housing Corporation ($636k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 12% and program service revenue 38% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $203k. At year end it held assets of $17.9m against liabilities of $14.9m, net assets of $3.0m. It reported 4 employees.