California Yimby Education Fund

Analysis

California Yimby Education Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Sacramento, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2021, 5 years ago. Its declared purposes cover housing and shelter, which this site groups under housing and shelter. 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, California Yimby Education Fund reported income of $3.6m and spending of $4.0m, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $3.2m to $3.6m (+11%), an average of +5.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 64%. Over the whole period it spent 45% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, California Yimby Education Fund sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Greater Brunswick Housing Corporation ($3.6m), Shelter Providers of Southern California Inc ($3.6m) and Cardinal Shehan Center for Aging ($3.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.4m. At year end it held assets of $8.2m against liabilities of $1.6m, net assets of $6.6m.