Bay School

Analysis

Bay School is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Cruz, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1999, 27 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 June 2023, Bay School reported income of $4.7m and spending of $5.2m, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $5.8m to $4.7m (-19%), an average of -5.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income dropped by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Bay School sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Childs Garden School Inc ($4.7m), Mountain Sage Community School ($4.7m) and Alfalah Academy Inc ($4.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.8% and program service revenue 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $2.8m. At year end it held assets of $8.7m against liabilities of $6.5m, net assets of $2.2m. It reported 74 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.