Oasis Legal Services

Analysis

Oasis Legal Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. 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, Oasis Legal Services reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.8m, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $837k to $1.5m (+77%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 73%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Oasis Legal Services sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 84th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Child Advocacy Center Inc ($1.5m), Center for Death Penalty Litigation ($1.5m) and African Family Health Organization Afaho ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 77% and program service revenue 24% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $403k (22% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $802k. At year end it held assets of $914k against liabilities of $335k, net assets of $579k. It reported 25 employees.