Dorothy Day Hospitality House Inc

Analysis

Dorothy Day Hospitality House Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Danbury, CT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1984, 42 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, Dorothy Day Hospitality House Inc reported income of $234k and spending of $271k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $270k to $234k (-13%), an average of -3.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Dorothy Day Hospitality House Inc sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 54th percentile within CT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Habitat for Humanity International Inc ($234k), Pathway to Serenity Inc ($234k) and Reno Supportive Housing Inc ($234k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. At year end it held assets of $800k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $800k.

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.