Benicia Community Action Council

Analysis

Benicia Community Action Council is a registered charity in United States, based in Benicia, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Benicia Community Action Council reported income of $496k and spending of $561k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $638k to $496k (-22%), an average of -6.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Benicia Community Action Council sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Next Step Pregnancy Services ($496k), Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media ($496k) and Sunrise Youth Bureau ($496k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% and program service revenue 4.5% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $68k (12% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $128k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $269k, net assets of $932k. It reported 11 employees.