Berkeley Law Foundation

Analysis

Berkeley Law Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1976, 50 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. 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, Berkeley Law Foundation reported income of $93k and spending of $79k, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $70k to $93k (+33%), an average of +7.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 97%. Over the whole period it spent 75% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Berkeley Law Foundation sits at the 29th percentile: it is larger than about 29% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile, and in the 37th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include RTL Ed Inc ($93k), Starbright Foundation Inc ($94k) and Wilson and Carol Trueblood Performing Arts Center Inc ($93k).

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 $157k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $157k.