Longfellow Non-Profit Housing Inc

Analysis

Longfellow Non-Profit Housing Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Boston, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover housing and shelter, which this site groups under housing and shelter. 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, Longfellow Non-Profit Housing Inc reported income of $631k and spending of $699k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $562k to $631k (+12%), an average of +2.9% a year. Over the whole period it spent 121% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Longfellow Non-Profit Housing Inc sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 74th percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Frontier Communities Inc ($631k), Deborahs Place II ($631k) and Family Promise of Waukesha County Inc ($631k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $75k. At year end it held assets of $3.4m against liabilities of $5.3m, net assets of -$1.9m.

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.