Cause Communications

Analysis

Cause Communications is a registered charity in United States, based in Los Angeles, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2000, 26 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 December 2023, Cause Communications reported income of $1.2m and spending of $2.0m, spending 169% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $8.1m to $1.2m (-85%), an average of -38% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 63%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Cause Communications sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sonoma Valley Education Foundation ($1.2m), Rancho Santa Fe Education Foundation ($1.2m) and Texas Masonic Charities Foundation ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 11% and program service revenue 89% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $140k (7.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $931k. At year end it held assets of $816k against liabilities of $438k, net assets of $378k. It reported 10 employees.