Mendocino Coast Childrens Fund

Analysis

Mendocino Coast Childrens Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Mendocino, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1996, 30 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, Mendocino Coast Childrens Fund reported income of $458k and spending of $598k, spending 131% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $294k to $458k (+56%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 208%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Mendocino Coast Childrens Fund sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 71st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Southwest Iowa Inc ($458k), Inner City Hope Corporation ($458k) and Mohonk Education and Neuropsychological Foundation Inc ($458k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $83k (14% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $98k. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $13k, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 3 employees.