Brenda Jeans Sober Living Facility

Analysis

Brenda Jeans Sober Living Facility is a registered charity in United States, based in Bakersfield, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Brenda Jeans Sober Living Facility reported income of $196k and spending of $234k, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $230k to $196k (-15%), an average of -7.6% a year. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Brenda Jeans Sober Living Facility sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 56th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Special Spirit Inc ($196k), North Platte Opportunity Center for Handicapped Adults and Children ($196k) and Eaton Community Health ($196k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.2% and program service revenue 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $36k against liabilities of $203k, net assets of -$167k.

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.