Joseph & Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics

Analysis

Joseph & Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics is a registered charity in United States, based in Playa Del Rey, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2025. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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 2020, Joseph & Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics reported income of $261k and spending of $303k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2017 to December 2020, income fell from $834k to $261k (-69%), an average of -44% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 63% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Joseph & Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 61st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Greeneville School Support Corporation ($261k), CCHS Gridiron Club Inc ($261k) and Marion Academy Inc ($261k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2020, revenue came from contributions and grants 2.0% and program service revenue 60% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $149k (49% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $7,670. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $302k, net assets of $873k. It reported 2 employees.