Santa Ynez Valley Western Heritage Foundation

Analysis

Santa Ynez Valley Western Heritage Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Ynez, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2019, 7 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Santa Ynez Valley Western Heritage Foundation reported income of $258k and spending of $215k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $165k to $258k (+56%), an average of +56% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Santa Ynez Valley Western Heritage Foundation sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 61st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Power Speaks Louder ($258k), Villa Notre Dame Inc ($258k) and Central Works ($258k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 58% and program service revenue 37% of the total. At year end it held assets of $77k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $77k.