Bowles Hall Foundation

Analysis

Bowles Hall Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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 June 2023, Bowles Hall Foundation reported income of $5.4m and spending of $5.1m, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $4.6m to $5.4m (+16%), an average of +3.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Bowles Hall Foundation sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium Inc ($5.4m), Buffalo Seminary ($5.4m) and The Exploris School ($5.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.9% and program service revenue 95% of the total. At year end it held assets of $34.4m against liabilities of $38.5m, net assets of -$4.1m.