SFV Education

Analysis

SFV Education is a registered charity in United States, based in Sun Valley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type i) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, SFV Education reported income of $2.5m and spending of $2.9m, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $1.8m to $2.5m (+34%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income rose by 205%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, SFV Education sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Menlo Atherton High School Foundation for the Future ($2.5m), The Pathfinder School Inc ($2.5m) and Logan Hope ($2.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $42.2m against liabilities of $41.0m, net assets of $1.2m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.