East Bay Center for the Blind Inc

Analysis

East Bay Center for the Blind Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1967, 59 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, East Bay Center for the Blind Inc reported income of $88k and spending of $96k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $94k to $88k (-6.5%), an average of -1.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 100%. Over the whole period it spent 141% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, East Bay Center for the Blind Inc sits at the 25th percentile: it is larger than about 25% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile, and in the 36th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mirakind ($88k), Brazosport Medical Center Inc ($88k) and Truth Ministries Inc ($88k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 73% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $23k. At year end it held assets of $391k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $391k.

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.