Sonoma County Community Foundation

Analysis

Sonoma County Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Rosa, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Sonoma County Community Foundation reported income of $15.8m and spending of $23.5m, spending 149% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $22.4m to $15.8m (-30%), an average of -8.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Sonoma County Community Foundation sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oracle Health Foundation ($15.7m), Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts ($15.8m) and CCF Community Initiatives Fund ($15.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 70% and program service revenue 2.4% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $472k (2.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $219.4m against liabilities of $2.3m, net assets of $217.1m. It reported 23 employees.