Howell Mountain Wine Auction

Analysis

Howell Mountain Wine Auction is a registered charity in United States, based in Angwin, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2010, 16 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, Howell Mountain Wine Auction reported income of $218k and spending of $283k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $231k to $218k (-6.0%), an average of -1.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 503%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Howell Mountain Wine Auction sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sheyenne Valley Community Foundation ($217k), Rainforest Cafe Friends of the Future Foundation ($218k) and Long Island Community Chest Inc ($217k).

At year end it held assets of $140k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $140k.