Northern California Education Foundation

Analysis

Northern California Education Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Elk Grove, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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, Northern California Education Foundation reported income of $302k and spending of $140k, leaving 54% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $422k to $302k (-28%), an average of -8.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 101%. Over the whole period it spent 52% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Northern California Education Foundation sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 64th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lamar County Education Foundation Inc ($302k), Birmingham-Southern College Thomas E Jernigan Scholarship Endowment F ($302k) and Semi-Therm Educational Foundation ($302k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 82% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $3,313. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $3,518, net assets of $1.2m.