Commonwealth Housing Legal Services

Analysis

Commonwealth Housing Legal Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Philadelphia, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover medical research, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending October 2023, Commonwealth Housing Legal Services reported income of $701k and spending of $649k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2019 to October 2023, income grew from $386k to $701k (+82%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2023, when income rose by 367%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Commonwealth Housing Legal Services sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Non-Profit Initiatives Inc ($701k), Tamarack Grief Resource Center Inc ($701k) and Bidada International Foundation ($701k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending October 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 48% and program service revenue 52% of the total. At year end it held assets of $871k against liabilities of $383k, net assets of $488k.