Environmental Center of San Luis Obispo

Analysis

Environmental Center of San Luis Obispo is a registered charity in United States, based in SN Luis Obisp, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Environmental Center of San Luis Obispo reported income of $265k and spending of $258k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $245k to $265k (+8.4%), an average of +2.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Environmental Center of San Luis Obispo sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 62nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Partnership for Clean Transportatio N ($265k), New England Chapter of the International Society of Arboricul ($266k) and Community Life Collaborative ($265k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $100k. At year end it held assets of $306k against liabilities of $5,255, net assets of $301k. It reported 6 employees.