BCS Foundation

Analysis

BCS Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Lake Forest, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover medical research, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, BCS Foundation reported income of $379k and spending of $308k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $485k to $379k (-22%), an average of -6.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 81% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, BCS Foundation sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc ($379k), Memorial Medical Center Inc ($379k) and Meat Fight Inc ($379k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $557k against liabilities of $32k, net assets of $525k.