Junior League of Bakersfield

Analysis

Junior League of Bakersfield is a registered charity in United States, based in Bakersfield, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1954, 72 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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 May 2023, Junior League of Bakersfield reported income of $115k and spending of $197k, spending 171% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2019 to May 2023, income grew from $111k to $115k (+3.1%), an average of +0.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2022, when income rose by 62%. Over the whole period it spent 163% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Junior League of Bakersfield sits at the 38th percentile: it is larger than about 38% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile, and in the 43rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Macon Regional Crime Stoppers Inc ($115k), Williamsburg Enterprise Community Commision Inc ($115k) and Society for Underwater Technology ($115k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending May 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 58% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $43k. At year end it held assets of $766k against liabilities of $36k, net assets of $730k. It reported 1 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.