Bakersfield Rotary West Foundation

Analysis

Bakersfield Rotary West Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Bakersfield, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Bakersfield Rotary West Foundation reported income of $109k and spending of $110k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $119k to $109k (-8.0%), an average of -2.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 582%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Bakersfield Rotary West Foundation sits at the 45th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile, and in the 41st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ca Patriots Foundation ($109k), Howard W Hunter Foundation ($109k) and Bethany Home Foundation ($109k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $408, net assets of $1.3m.