Tijuana Estuary Foundation

Analysis

Tijuana Estuary Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Imperial BCH, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1981, 45 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. 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, Tijuana Estuary Foundation reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.3m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.6m to $1.4m (-14%), an average of -3.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Tijuana Estuary Foundation sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Santa Fe Conservation Trust ($1.3m), Franklin Land Trust Inc ($1.4m) and Loon Preservation Committee ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $746k. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $467k, net assets of $679k. It reported 14 employees.