Patten Education Foundation

Analysis

Patten Education Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Oakland, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1967, 59 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a school under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Patten Education Foundation reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.1m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.7m to $1.2m (-31%), an average of -8.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 205%. Over the whole period it spent 65% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Patten Education Foundation sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tooele County School District Education Foundation Inc ($1.2m), Step Up Schools Inc ($1.2m) and Blueprint 15 Inc ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 89% and program service revenue 11% of the total. At year end it held assets of $5.3m against liabilities of $1.0m, net assets of $4.3m.