Bakersfield Play Center

Analysis

Bakersfield Play Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Bakersfield, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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, Bakersfield Play Center reported income of $275k and spending of $278k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $213k to $275k (+29%), an average of +8.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Bakersfield Play Center sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 62nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Edison Athletic Booster Club-Oh ($275k), Jack Anderson Elementary School PTO ($275k) and Active Reading Clinic ($275k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 12% and program service revenue 86% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $151k. At year end it held assets of $26k against liabilities of $27k, net assets of -$1,237. It reported 8 employees.