Fair Trade San Luis Obispo Inc

Analysis

Fair Trade San Luis Obispo Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in SN Luis Obisp, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Fair Trade San Luis Obispo Inc reported income of $443k and spending of $443k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $215k to $443k (+106%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 80%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Fair Trade San Luis Obispo Inc sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 70th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Action Kivu Inc ($443k), American Friends of Yeshivas Aliyois Eliyahu Inc ($443k) and Hands Offering Hope Foundation Inc ($442k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.9% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $246k. At year end it held assets of $455k against liabilities of $95k, net assets of $360k. It reported 5 employees.