San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions Incorporated

Analysis

San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Sunnyvale, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover youth development, which this site groups under children and youth development. 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 March 2023, San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions Incorporated reported income of $125k and spending of $191k, spending 153% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2019 to March 2023, income fell from $793k to $125k (-84%), an average of -37% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2021, when income rose by 104%. Over the whole period it spent 141% of the income it received.

Among 14,332 United States charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions Incorporated sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile, and in the 45th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include PGR Foundation Inc ($125k), Carrington Youth Center ($125k) and Pop Warner Little Scholars Inc ($125k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 76% and program service revenue 21% of the total. At year end it held assets of $181k against liabilities of $105k, net assets of $75k.

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.