California Association Of Student Councils

Portola Vally, CA · EIN 942764267 · Youth Development Programs, Other · IRS code O50

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Their finances

from their own IRS Form 990, fiscal year 2025
Total revenue
$1M
$1,084,599
From donations
74%
$799K of revenue
Highest reported salary
$143K
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Spending breakdown — and why we do not lead with it
Spent on programmes
76%
$485K of $635K spent

A high figure here is not straightforwardly good. The measure counts money spent on programmes against money spent running the organisation, so it rewards charities that under-invest in staff, systems and evaluation — and it can be moved by accounting choices rather than by doing more. The largest charity raters publicly abandoned it as a headline measure for exactly that reason. It is here because it is on the filing and people look for it, not because we think it tells you who to give to.

Employees
2
Volunteers
180
Total spending
$635K
Staff costs
$208K

No comparison shown. We list only 2 charities under this cause with a filing, which is too few to rank against meaningfully. A percentile drawn from a handful of organisations looks precise and means nothing.

Figures are as the organisation reported them to the IRS. We do not adjust, score or rate them, and we do not combine them into a single number — that would require deciding how much each one matters, which is your judgement to make, not ours.

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Against every Youth Development Programs, Other charity in the country

3,420 filed under IRS code O50 in 2025
From donations
74%
higher than 40% of them
median 87%
Spent on programmes
76%
higher than 31% of them
median 85%
Highest salary
$143K
higher than 91% of them
median $11K

A percentile here is a position among charities the IRS classifies the same way — it is not a score, and being lower is not automatically worse. A large organisation running its own veterinary hospitals will spend a different share on programmes than one that passes grants through, and both are doing their job.

Others doing the same thing

IRS code O50 · 3 we list

Every organisation below is classified under the same IRS code, which is what makes putting them in one table defensible. Largest first — not ranked by any of the figures.

CharityRevenueFrom donationsProgrammesTop salary
Project Hawaii Inc
Keaau, HI · FY2024
$1M100%100%—
California Association Of Student Councils — this page
Portola Vally, CA · FY2025
$1M74%76%$143K
Journeys Urging Mammoth Possibilities
Raleigh, NC
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A dash means the organisation has not filed a full Form 990 in the years we hold, or files the short return that omits the figure. It is not a zero, and it is not a mark against them.