California Public Safety Radio Assoc

Analysis

California Public Safety Radio Assoc is a registered charity in United States, based in Riverside, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public safety, disaster preparedness and relief, which this site groups under armed forces, emergency and public safety. 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, California Public Safety Radio Assoc reported income of $92k and spending of $98k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $77k to $92k (+19%), an average of +6.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 166%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 9,128 United States charities whose main cause is armed forces, emergency and public safety and that reported income, California Public Safety Radio Assoc sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile, and in the 37th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dunbar Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($92k), Bumpass Volunteer Fire Department ($92k) and Penfield Fire Company Inc ($92k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 19% and program service revenue 81% of the total. At year end it held assets of $121k against liabilities of $425, net assets of $120k.