Western Sages Foundation

Analysis

Western Sages Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Rosemead, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Western Sages Foundation reported income of $430k and spending of $418k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $122k to $430k (+252%), an average of +37% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 278%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Western Sages Foundation sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 70th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Healthy Ninos Honduras Inc ($430k), Jackson Hole Food & Wine ($430k) and Merge Memphis Inc ($430k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $30k. At year end it held assets of $292k against liabilities of $2,700, net assets of $290k.