Building a Better Boyertown

Analysis

Building a Better Boyertown is a registered charity in United States, based in Boyertown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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, Building a Better Boyertown reported income of $168k and spending of $184k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $138k to $168k (+22%), an average of +5.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 73%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Building a Better Boyertown sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile, and in the 47th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lafayette Community Development Fund ($168k), Friends of Algiers Village Inc ($168k) and Lauri Jean Zach Center Incorporated ($168k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $97k. At year end it held assets of $369k against liabilities of $9,796, net assets of $359k.