California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance

Analysis

California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance is a registered charity in United States, based in Sacramento, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 June 2023, California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance reported income of $662k and spending of $739k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $712k to $662k (-7.1%), an average of -1.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bart Ehrman Foundation ($662k), Refuge for Children Inc ($662k) and Naugatuck Day Care Inc ($661k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 65% and program service revenue 35% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $410k. At year end it held assets of $258k against liabilities of $220k, net assets of $38k. It reported 5 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.