Honor Flight Kern County

Analysis

Honor Flight Kern County is a registered charity in United States, based in Bakersfield, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. 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, Honor Flight Kern County reported income of $620k and spending of $656k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $664k to $620k (-6.7%), an average of -1.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 139%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Honor Flight Kern County sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 75th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment Through Research ($620k), Concordant Publishing Concern ($620k) and Highlands Current Inc ($620k).

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 $451k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $451k.