Santa Cruz Zen Center

Analysis

Santa Cruz Zen Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Cruz, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1975, 51 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a church under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Santa Cruz Zen Center reported income of $102k and spending of $108k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $151k to $102k (-32%), an average of -9.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 104%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Santa Cruz Zen Center sits at the 37th percentile: it is larger than about 37% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile, and in the 40th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lightrider Inc ($102k), Mendota PTA ($102k) and Kosciusko County Historical Society Incorporated ($102k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 37% and program service revenue 41% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $5,068, net assets of $1.3m.