Americas Best Local Charities

Analysis

Americas Best Local Charities is a registered charity in United States, based in San Rafael, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1987, 39 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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 April 2024, Americas Best Local Charities reported income of $11.4m and spending of $11.4m, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2020 to April 2024, income fell from $14.5m to $11.4m (-22%), an average of -5.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2021, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Americas Best Local Charities sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Poise Foundation ($11.3m), Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc ($11.5m) and Irving I Moskowitz Foundation ($11.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending April 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.7m against liabilities of $2.7m, net assets of $0.