Allston-Brighton Area Planning Action Council Inc

Analysis

Allston-Brighton Area Planning Action Council Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Allston, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1971, 55 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 December 2023, Allston-Brighton Area Planning Action Council Inc reported income of $85k and spending of $87k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $359k to $85k (-76%), an average of -30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 54%. Over the whole period it spent 135% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Allston-Brighton Area Planning Action Council Inc sits at the 29th percentile: it is larger than about 29% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 33rd percentile, and in the 40th percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lots ($85k), Share My Smile ($85k) and Tamion Enterprises ($85k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 14% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $114k, net assets of $1.0m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.