Santa Ana Watershed Association of RCDS

Analysis

Santa Ana Watershed Association of RCDS is a registered charity in United States, based in Riverside, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Santa Ana Watershed Association of RCDS reported income of $3.7m and spending of $4.1m, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.9m to $3.7m (+25%), an average of +5.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Santa Ana Watershed Association of RCDS sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Solar Energy International ($3.7m), Escondido Creek Conservancy ($3.7m) and Fallbrook Land Conservancy ($3.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 95% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $179k (4.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.2m. At year end it held assets of $4.8m against liabilities of $1.4m, net assets of $3.5m. It reported 47 employees.