Friends of Jawbone Canyon

Analysis

Friends of Jawbone Canyon is a registered charity in United States, based in California City, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1998, 28 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, Friends of Jawbone Canyon reported income of $2.4m and spending of $2.0m, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1000k to $2.4m (+143%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 99%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Friends of Jawbone Canyon sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center Inc ($2.4m), Quivira Coalition Inc ($2.4m) and Tillamook Estuaries Partnership ($2.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.2m against liabilities of $13k, net assets of $2.2m.