California Botanical Society

Analysis

California Botanical Society is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1967, 59 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. 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, California Botanical Society reported income of $53k and spending of $74k, spending 139% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $95k to $53k (-44%), an average of -25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, California Botanical Society sits at the 21st percentile: it is larger than about 21% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 21st percentile, and in the 23rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Partnership for Environmental Progress ($53k), Friends of Green Cay Nature Center Inc ($53k) and Arundel Conservation Trust ($53k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.3% and program service revenue 64% of the total. At year end it held assets of $324k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $324k.