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Do Good Bus

RegisteredEIN 30-0694127Santa Monica, CAGrant-making and general purposes
Income$117k2023-12
Spending$108ksame year
Spent / received162%5-year average
Size in its cause46th pctGrant-making and general purposes
Exempt since2014Publicly supported organisat
Employees1latest return

Analysis

Do Good Bus is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Monica, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Do Good Bus reported income of $117k and spending of $108k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $184k to $117k (-37%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 98%. Over the whole period it spent 162% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Do Good Bus sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile, and in the 43rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of the City Market ($116k), Franklin Alumni Association & Foundation ($117k) and Big Brother-Big Sister Foundation ($116k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 4.5% and program service revenue 95% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $4,000 (3.7% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $64k against liabilities of $377k, net assets of -$313k. It reported 1 employees.

Income and spending

$0$72k$144k$216k$288k2019 Income: $183,5922019 Spending: $168,72820192020 Income: $44,6162020 Spending: $128,96520202021 Income: $88,4402021 Spending: $118,00420212022 Income: $69,0752022 Spending: $287,71720222023 Income: $116,5352023 Spending: $108,2382023
IncomeSpending

Where the income comes from

  • Contributions & grants 4.5%
  • Program services 95%
  • Other 0.0%

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Big Brother-Big Sister FoundationBoston$116k
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