California Lions Foundation

Analysis

California Lions Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Tehachapi, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2016, 10 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 June 2023, California Lions Foundation reported income of $140k and spending of $177k, spending 126% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $257k to $140k (-45%), an average of -26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income dropped by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 72% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, California Lions Foundation sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile, and in the 48th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Washington Electric Foundation Inc ($140k), WCHS Scholarship Fund ($140k) and Productive Lives Inc ($140k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 80% of the total. At year end it held assets of $430k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $430k.