San Carlos Foundation

Analysis

San Carlos Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1984, 42 years ago. 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 April 2024, San Carlos Foundation reported income of $78k and spending of $144k, spending 184% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2020 to April 2024, income fell from $150k to $78k (-48%), an average of -15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2021, when income rose by 102%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, San Carlos Foundation sits at the 30th percentile: it is larger than about 30% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 30th percentile, and in the 33rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc ($78k), Kimberly Family Foundation ($78k) and Warren Land Trust Inc ($78k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending April 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $257k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $257k.