Downtown Sacramento Foundation

Analysis

Downtown Sacramento Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Sacramento, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2012, 14 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 (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, Downtown Sacramento Foundation reported income of $96k and spending of $69k, leaving 27% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $288k to $96k (-67%), an average of -31% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 72% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Downtown Sacramento Foundation sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile, and in the 38th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include CFD Volunteer Fund Inc ($96k), Aims India Foundation ($96k) and Bees for Development North America ($96k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% of the total. At year end it held assets of $357k against liabilities of $22k, net assets of $335k.