Ojai Valley Defense Fund

Analysis

Ojai Valley Defense Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Ojai, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2009, 17 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 2023, Ojai Valley Defense Fund reported income of $67k and spending of $9,741, leaving 86% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $87k to $67k (-23%), an average of -6.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 24% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Ojai Valley Defense Fund sits at the 26th percentile: it is larger than about 26% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 26th percentile, and in the 29th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Artesia Clean & Beautiful ($67k), Friends of Blue Hole ($67k) and Lake Quassapaug Association Inc ($67k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 74% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.3m.