The Advocacy Center

Analysis

The Advocacy Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Sumter, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2008, 18 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, The Advocacy Center reported income of $160k and spending of $68k, leaving 57% of income unspent that year. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $109k to $160k (+47%), an average of +47% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 69% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Advocacy Center sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile, and in the 54th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Meals on Wheels California Inc ($160k), Lightbridge Hospice Community Foundation ($160k) and Servants Heart Outreach ($160k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $95k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $95k.