CALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B99

Classification

2000

Street

1107 9TH ST STE 310

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

• THE BUDGET CENTER DISTRIBUTES RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS BY PRODUCING BOTH LONG- AND SHORT-FORM PUBLICATIONS. THE BUDGET CENTER PRODUCED 42 ANALYSES IN 2023 TO ADVANCE PUBLIC POLICIES TO CREATE A MORE EQUITABLE CALIFORNIA THAT WERE PUBLISHED ON OUR WEBSITE AND DISTRIBUTED TO OUR EMAIL SUBSCRIBER LIST WHICH AVERAGED 8,770 SUBSCRIBERS. OUR WEBSITE HAD A TOTAL OF 228,000 VISITORS. THE BUDGET CENTER IS A TRUSTED SOURCE OF RELIABLE INFORMATION FOR THE MEDIA, FEATURED IN 200 UNIQUE ARTICLES AND 106 BROADCAST SPOTS IN 2023. WE ALSO DISTRIBUTE OUR PUBLICATIONS THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA, ESPECIALLY TWITTER, WHERE WE MAINTAINED AN AVERAGE OF 10,000 FOLLOWERS AND HAD AN AVERAGE OF 24,790 IMPRESSIONS PER MONTH.

  Revenue $1,916

• THE BUDGET CENTER ALSO MAINTAINS RELATIONSHIPS WITH ADVOCACY PARTNERS ACROSS THE STATE BY PARTICIPATING IN SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, SERVING ON BOARDS AND COMMITTEES, AND PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE. OUR STAFF SERVED ON 33-37 BOARDS OR COMMITTEES AT ANY GIVEN TIME THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, PARTICIPATED IN 83 SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, AND FULFILLED 189 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE REQUESTS FROM STATE AND LOCAL ADVOCATES AND POLICYMAKERS AND THEIR STAFF. THESE PARTNERSHIPS HELP MAXIMIZE OUR IMPACT TO CREATE MORE EQUITABLE POLICY FOR ALL CALIFORNIANS.THE BUDGET CENTER HOSTED NINE VIRTUAL EVENTS IN 2023 WITH 3,790 REGISTRANTS AND ONE IN PERSON EVENT WITH 322 REGISTRANTS.

  Expenses $3,112,895 · Revenue $61,611

• THE BUDGET CENTER ALSO SERVES AS A PARTNER AND CO-HOST IN THE BUDGET POWER PROJECT, A PARTNERSHIP WITH CATALYST CALIFORNIA AND THE MILLION VOTERS PROJECT TO BUILD LOCAL AND STATE BUDGET ADVOCACY CAPACITY TO ENSURE EQUITABLE OUTCOMES FOR LOCAL BUDGET DECISIONS THROUGH EDUCATION, TRAINING, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, CAPACITY BUILDING, AND PEER LEARNING.

  Grants $164,000

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2023

  Revenue

  $6,655,540

  Expenses

  $3,395,252

  Contributions

  $6,451,510

  Grants paid

  $164,000

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,571,224

  Expenses

  $3,267,500

  Contributions

  $2,374,036

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,250,626

  Expenses

  $2,843,774

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,922,450

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,868,186

  Expenses

  $2,675,034

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,545,279

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,486,044

  Expenses

  $2,369,238

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,236,777

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,311,568

  Expenses

  $1,916,770

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,018,418

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,265,883

  Expenses

  $1,638,959

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,618,028

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,117,565

  Expenses

  $1,458,290

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,920,098

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,097,242

  Expenses

  $1,560,400

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,233,145

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

• CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND

  $128,000

  2023 · PURPOSE OF GRANT WAS TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF A STATEWIDE BUDGET EQUITY NARRATIVE FRAMEWORK (BUDGET POWER PROJECT).

• CATALYST CALIFORNIA

  $36,000

  2023 · PURPOSE OF GRANT WAS TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF A STATEWIDE BUDGET EQUITY NARRATIVE FRAMEWORK (BUDGET POWER PROJECT).

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Grants received

• CATALYST CALIFORNIA

  $500,000

  2023 · BUDGET POWER PROJECT -MILLION VOTERS PROJECT

• SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION

  $450,000

  2024 · FOR GENERAL SUPPORT

• SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION

  $410,000

  2022 · PROGRAM - FOR GENERAL SUPPORT

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $250,000

  2024 · MEDICAL / PUBLIC SERVICES

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $226,500

  2022 · PUBLIC SERVICE

• SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION

  $210,000

  2023 · TO SUPPORT THE BUDGET POWER PROJECT. FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $200,000

  2024 · Civic Participation

• CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES

  $150,000

  2024 · General Support

• CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES

  $150,000

  2023 · General support

• CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES

  $135,000

  2022 · Immigration Project

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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