West Contra Costa Retired Educators Scholarship Fund

Analysis

West Contra Costa Retired Educators Scholarship Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in El Cerrito, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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 June 2024, West Contra Costa Retired Educators Scholarship Fund reported income of $253k and spending of $112k, leaving 56% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $65k to $253k (+292%), an average of +41% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 142%. Over the whole period it spent 53% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, West Contra Costa Retired Educators Scholarship Fund sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 61st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Georgia Section Institute of Transportation Engineers Inc ($253k), New Orleans School of Glass Works Inc ($253k) and Run Hard Rest Well Inc ($253k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 75% of the total. At year end it held assets of $749k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $749k.