Siskiyou Opportunity Center

Analysis

Siskiyou Opportunity Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Weed, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1970, 56 years ago. Its declared purposes cover employment, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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, Siskiyou Opportunity Center reported income of $5.5m and spending of $4.7m, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.6m to $5.5m (+110%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 60%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Siskiyou Opportunity Center sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Jobs to Move America ($5.5m), Commonwealth Impact Foundation Inc ($5.5m) and National District Attorneys Association ($5.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.5% and program service revenue 95% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $139k (3.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.1m. At year end it held assets of $3.4m against liabilities of $543k, net assets of $2.8m. It reported 193 employees.