California Living Museum Foundation

Analysis

California Living Museum Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Bakersfield, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1996, 30 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 supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, California Living Museum Foundation reported income of $992k and spending of $1.2m, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $448k to $992k (+122%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 58%. 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, California Living Museum Foundation sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 80th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Social Giving Network ($992k), Local Independent Charities of Texas ($993k) and Edge Ai Foundation ($992k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $456k, net assets of $1.7m.