California Eastern Star Foundation

Analysis

California Eastern Star Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Yorba Linda, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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 September 2023, California Eastern Star Foundation reported income of $2.4m and spending of $317k, leaving 87% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $469k to $2.4m (+404%), an average of +50% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2023, when income rose by 485%. Over the whole period it spent 32% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, California Eastern Star Foundation sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include San Francisco Chapter of the a Phillip Randolph Institute ($2.4m), Association for Biblical Higher Education ($2.4m) and Horizon Education Alliance Inc ($2.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 17% of the total. At year end it held assets of $11.1m against liabilities of $87k, net assets of $11.0m.