Bay Access

Analysis

Bay Access is a registered charity in United States, based in Seabrook, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Bay Access reported income of $278k and spending of $301k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $349k to $278k (-20%), an average of -5.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 206%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Bay Access sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 64th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Florida State Guardianship Association Inc ($278k), Giving in Motion Inc ($278k) and Rising Leaders Inc ($278k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 32% and program service revenue 61% of the total. At year end it held assets of $167k against liabilities of $2,866, net assets of $164k.

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.