Center for the Study of the Americas Incorporated

Analysis

Center for the Study of the Americas Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1982, 44 years ago. 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, Center for the Study of the Americas Incorporated reported income of $429k and spending of $769k, spending 179% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $368k to $429k (+16%), an average of +3.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 45%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Center for the Study of the Americas Incorporated sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 70th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Latin American Workshop Inc ($429k), Victory Brookside Inc ($429k) and Boothbay Region Community Resource Council ($429k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. It paid $1,200 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $709k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $709k.