Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Cruz County

Analysis

Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Cruz County is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Cruz, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1966, 60 years ago. Its declared purposes cover youth development, which this site groups under children and youth development. 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 December 2023, Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Cruz County reported income of $2.7m and spending of $2.6m, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.5m to $2.7m (+73%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 14,332 United States charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Cruz County sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Boys & Girls Clubs of LA Habra-Brea ($2.7m), Homes First ($2.7m) and Boys and Girls Club of the Olympic Peninsula ($2.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 64% and program service revenue 28% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.5m. At year end it held assets of $4.6m against liabilities of $190k, net assets of $4.4m. It reported 96 employees.