Ideagarden Institute Incorporated

Analysis

Ideagarden Institute Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Healdsburg, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2021, 5 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 (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, Ideagarden Institute Incorporated reported income of $1.0m and spending of $880k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $235k to $1.0m (+331%), an average of +108% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 246%. Over the whole period it spent 71% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Ideagarden Institute Incorporated sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 80th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Outgrowing Hunger ($1.0m), Texarkana Baptist Orphanage ($1.0m) and West Broad Street YMCA Inc ($1.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 0.5% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $461k. At year end it held assets of $683k against liabilities of $17k, net assets of $665k. It reported 9 employees.