Tifton Judicial Circuit Shelter Inc Ruths Cottages

Analysis

Tifton Judicial Circuit Shelter Inc Ruths Cottages is a registered charity in United States, based in Tifton, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Tifton Judicial Circuit Shelter Inc Ruths Cottages reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.6m, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $1.8m to $1.5m (-15%), an average of -3.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income dropped by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Tifton Judicial Circuit Shelter Inc Ruths Cottages sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 86th percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sunny Dale Service Center Inc ($1.5m), Corpus Christi Area Council for the Deaf Inc ($1.5m) and American Friends of UN Techo Para Mi Pais Inc ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $756k. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $87k, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 18 employees.