Optimist Boys Home & Ranch

Analysis

Optimist Boys Home & Ranch is a registered charity in United States, based in Los Angeles, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1941, 85 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Optimist Boys Home & Ranch reported income of $18.9m and spending of $16.4m, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $27.2m to $18.9m (-30%), an average of -8.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income dropped by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Optimist Boys Home & Ranch sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Montgomery County Mh-Mr Emergency Service ($18.9m), Behavioral Health Response Inc ($19.0m) and Manning Regional Healthcare Center ($18.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $462k (2.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $8.8m. At year end it held assets of $23.0m against liabilities of $3.2m, net assets of $19.7m. It reported 229 employees.