Dunbar Association Inc

Analysis

Dunbar Association Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Syracuse, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1957, 69 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, Dunbar Association Inc reported income of $315k and spending of $495k, spending 157% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $521k to $315k (-39%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Dunbar Association Inc sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile, and in the 59th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mentors in the Mitten ($315k), Highland Lakes Pregnancy Resource Center ($315k) and Maui Firefighters Relief ($315k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $28k (5.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $181k. At year end it held assets of $596k against liabilities of $70k, net assets of $526k. It reported 19 employees.

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.