Avila Beach Community Foundation

Analysis

Avila Beach Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Avila Beach, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2000, 26 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, Avila Beach Community Foundation reported income of $338k and spending of $107k, leaving 68% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $414k to $338k (-18%), an average of -4.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 124%. Over the whole period it spent 75% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Avila Beach Community Foundation sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Nhhi-Champlin Inc ($338k), United Way of the Bradford Area Inc ($338k) and Hillcrest Healthcare Foundation ($338k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 5.8% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.5m against liabilities of $3,850, net assets of $2.5m.