Gualala Community Center

Analysis

Gualala Community Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Gualala, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1978, 48 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 June 2023, Gualala Community Center reported income of $2.1m and spending of $155k, leaving 93% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income grew from $167k to $2.1m (+1163%), an average of +133% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 889%. Over the whole period it spent 21% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Gualala Community Center sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include MW Healthcare Inc ($2.1m), Outcomes Inc ($2.1m) and Chicago Architecture Biennial Inc ($2.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 89% and program service revenue 0.2% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.6m against liabilities of $20k, net assets of $3.6m.