Santa Paula Community Fund Inc

Analysis

Santa Paula Community Fund Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Paula, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1979, 47 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Santa Paula Community Fund Inc reported income of $199k and spending of $203k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income grew from $85k to $199k (+134%), an average of +33% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 4747%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Santa Paula Community Fund Inc sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Loving Haiti ($199k), Punks with Lunch Lansing ($199k) and Long Beach Navy Memorial Heritage Association ($199k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $35k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $35k.

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.