The Ed Roberts Campus

Analysis

The Ed Roberts Campus is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 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, The Ed Roberts Campus reported income of $2.4m and spending of $2.6m, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.2m to $2.4m (+11%), an average of +2.7% a year. Over the whole period it spent 114% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Ed Roberts Campus sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mountain Lake Public Telecommunications Council ($2.4m), Senior Services North Fulton Inc ($2.4m) and Vermont Hills Family Life Center ($2.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.6% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $511k. At year end it held assets of $36.8m against liabilities of $3.8m, net assets of $33.0m. It reported 8 employees.

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.