Bagdad Cemetery Association
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
The Bagdad Cemetery Association is a volunteer organization which operates, maintains and manages the Bagdad Cemetery as a public cemetery on a non-profit and charitable basis.
- Income
- $171,794
- Spending
- $77,276
- Employees
- 0
- Volunteers
- 6
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Governance
This return does not answer enough of the governance questions to score.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (5)
- $24,910 spent. The largest accomplished program for the Bagdad Cemetery Associaiton is providing mowing and grounds keeping for the cemetery without cost and with charity for the individual gravesite owners, descendents and unknown or abandoned graves.
- $24,908 spent. The Second program for the Assocaition is the trimming and tree removal of overgrown and dead vegetation which threatened gravesite monuments and safety to the cemetery without cost to gravesite owners.
- $24,906 spent. The third program is the restoration program of historic monuments such as obelisks and above ground crypts which have been abandoned, in disrepair and are unsafe to the public. The costs of his project is provided on a chrity basis as the descendants of the occupants of the monuments are unknow or deceased.
- $2,552 spent. Assets Depreciation with additional construction work for Cemetery Office and Water tank installed.
- The expenses listed in part III, Line 4a, 4b & 4c for functional expenses are spreaded almost evenly to allow system to list accomplishments in a right sequence. 4d records the depreciation of the year.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(13) cemetery company.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Worth knowing.
Status was revoked on May 15, 2012 for not filing returns for three years, and reinstated on May 15, 2012.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated November 6, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since August 2018.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated November 4, 2026.
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