San Luis Obispo Parks Open Space & Trails Foundation

Analysis

San Luis Obispo Parks Open Space & Trails Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Arroyo Grande, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. 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, San Luis Obispo Parks Open Space & Trails Foundation reported income of $83k and spending of $93k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $87k to $83k (-4.4%), an average of -1.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, San Luis Obispo Parks Open Space & Trails Foundation sits at the 31st percentile: it is larger than about 31% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile, and in the 34th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Partnerships Resource Conservation and Development Counc ($83k), Friends of the Sangamon Valley ($83k) and The Willowwood Foundation ($83k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% of the total. At year end it held assets of $551k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $551k.