Walnut Avenue Family & Womens Center

Analysis

Walnut Avenue Family & Womens Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Cruz, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1966, 60 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, 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 June 2023, Walnut Avenue Family & Womens Center reported income of $3.1m and spending of $2.8m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $1.7m to $3.1m (+80%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income rose by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Walnut Avenue Family & Womens Center sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Stopping Woman Abuse Now Inc ($3.1m), Union Township Community Action Organization ($3.1m) and Soaring Heights Communities Inc ($3.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 85% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $126k (4.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.4m. At year end it held assets of $2.3m against liabilities of $1.7m, net assets of $582k. It reported 35 employees.