Adventist Community Services of Greater Washington

Analysis

Adventist Community Services of Greater Washington is a registered charity in United States, based in Silver Spring, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Adventist Community Services of Greater Washington reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.5m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $923k to $1.5m (+67%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 187%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Adventist Community Services of Greater Washington 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 84th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Suazo Business Center ($1.5m), Montgomery Area Council on Aging ($1.5m) and Refuge Domestic Violence Shelter Inc ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% and program service revenue 6.5% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $79k (5.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $174k. At year end it held assets of $353k against liabilities of $15k, net assets of $338k. It reported 12 employees.