Yuba Watershed Protection & Firesafe Council

Analysis

Yuba Watershed Protection & Firesafe Council is a registered charity in United States, based in Browns Valley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, 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 December 2023, Yuba Watershed Protection & Firesafe Council reported income of $437k and spending of $489k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1,880 to $437k (+23144%), an average of +290% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 18296%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Yuba Watershed Protection & Firesafe Council sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 70th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include A G Health Care Inc ($437k), From Within Counseling Inc ($437k) and Methodist Early Learning Center Inc ($437k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $61k (12% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $27k. At year end it held assets of $118k against liabilities of $52k, net assets of $66k. It reported 3 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.