Southern California Institute for Research and Education

Analysis

Southern California Institute for Research and Education is a registered charity in United States, based in Long Beach, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover medical research, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a hospital or medical research organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending September 2023, Southern California Institute for Research and Education reported income of $2.2m and spending of $2.3m, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $3.3m to $2.2m (-34%), an average of -9.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income dropped by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Southern California Institute for Research and Education sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Alliance Medical Ministry Inc ($2.2m), Barren River Regional Cancer Center Inc ($2.2m) and Hartford Communities That Care Inc ($2.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $115k (4.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. At year end it held assets of $6.5m against liabilities of $495k, net assets of $6.0m. It reported 47 employees.