Ecumenical Social Action Committee Inc

Analysis

Ecumenical Social Action Committee Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Jamaica Plain, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1969, 57 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, Ecumenical Social Action Committee Inc reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.7m, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $820k to $1.6m (+99%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 49%. 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, Ecumenical Social Action Committee Inc sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Madonna Place Inc ($1.6m), Cedar Lake Foundation Inc ($1.6m) and World Childhood Foundation Inc ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 16% and program service revenue 84% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $782k. At year end it held assets of $598k against liabilities of $372k, net assets of $226k. It reported 20 employees.