California Lookouts Foundation

Analysis

California Lookouts Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in San Diego, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. 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, California Lookouts Foundation reported income of $198k and spending of $206k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $189k to $198k (+5.2%), an average of +2.6% a year. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, California Lookouts Foundation sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cary Basketball Association ($198k), Bustin Barriers ($199k) and Edgewood Athletic Association Inc ($198k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 4.0% and program service revenue 93% of the total. At year end it held assets of $56k against liabilities of $6,881, net assets of $49k.