Sierra View Foundation

Analysis

Sierra View Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Porterville, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1998, 28 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, Sierra View Foundation reported income of $303k and spending of $167k, leaving 45% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $455k to $303k (-33%), an average of -9.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 40% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Sierra View Foundation sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 64th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fort Meade Alliance Foundation ($303k), First Responder Ministry of North Carolina Inc ($303k) and Maryland Opera Inc ($303k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 42% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.5m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.5m.