Bodega Bay Institute of Pollution Ecology

Analysis

Bodega Bay Institute of Pollution Ecology is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1972, 54 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. 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 2019, Bodega Bay Institute of Pollution Ecology reported income of $55k and spending of $52k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2019, income fell from $93k to $55k (-41%), an average of -41% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2019, when income dropped by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Bodega Bay Institute of Pollution Ecology sits at the 22nd percentile: it is larger than about 22% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 21st percentile, and in the 23rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Art & Nature Center ($55k), Trees 78 Foundation ($55k) and Local Ecology and Agriculture Fremont ($55k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2019, revenue came from contributions and grants 55% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $2.3m, net assets of -$751k.