Urban Adamah

Analysis

Urban Adamah is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2011, 15 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, Urban Adamah reported income of $2.8m and spending of $3.2m, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $3.4m to $2.8m (-19%), an average of -5.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Urban Adamah sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include California Clean Energy Fund ($2.8m), Earth Genome ($2.8m) and Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund ($2.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 61% and program service revenue 28% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $180k (5.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.6m. At year end it held assets of $17.5m against liabilities of $492k, net assets of $17.0m. It reported 123 employees.