Coastside State Parks Association

Analysis

Coastside State Parks Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Pescadero, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1991, 35 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. 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, Coastside State Parks Association reported income of $416k and spending of $463k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.3m to $416k (-67%), an average of -24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 134%. Over the whole period it spent 49% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Coastside State Parks Association sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chamber Music Houston Inc ($416k), Hudson Review Inc ($416k) and Roxy-Chimes Foundation Inc ($416k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 36% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $102k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $55k, net assets of $1.8m. It reported 5 employees.