Barstow Senior Citizen Center

Analysis

Barstow Senior Citizen Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Barstow, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover unknown, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. 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, Barstow Senior Citizen Center reported income of $2.4m and spending of $2.6m, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.5m to $2.4m (+58%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Barstow Senior Citizen Center sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Society of St Vincent de Paul ($2.4m), Essentials Hospitals Institute ($2.4m) and Near West Side Community Development Corporation Inc ($2.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 78% and program service revenue 7.2% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.0m. At year end it held assets of $190k against liabilities of $226k, net assets of -$35k. It reported 29 employees.

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.