Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California

Analysis

Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California is a registered charity in United States, based in Los Angeles, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1974, 52 years ago. 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, Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California reported income of $370k and spending of $113k, leaving 70% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $137k to $370k (+171%), an average of +28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 178%. Over the whole period it spent 61% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California 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 65th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Minnetonka Public Schools Foundation ($370k), Walt Whitman Birthplace Association ($370k) and Fiat Lux Foundation ($370k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $599, net assets of $2.1m.