Assistance League of Bakersfield

Analysis

Assistance League of Bakersfield is a registered charity in United States, based in Bakersfield, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1959, 67 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 June 2024, Assistance League of Bakersfield reported income of $719k and spending of $501k, leaving 30% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $404k to $719k (+78%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 71% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Assistance League of Bakersfield sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Meals on Wheels of Chester County Inc ($718k), Rockson Community Development Corporation Inc ($719k) and Loved Twice ($718k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 85% and program service revenue 2.6% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $16k, net assets of $2.1m.