City Mission Society Inc

Analysis

City Mission Society Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Buffalo, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1947, 79 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending September 2023, City Mission Society Inc reported income of $9.3m and spending of $11.4m, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $11.2m to $9.3m (-17%), an average of -4.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2023, when income dropped by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, City Mission Society Inc sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kansas Masonic Home ($9.3m), Douglass Community Services Inc ($9.3m) and Oregon Human Development Corporation ($9.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 87% and program service revenue 12% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $244k (2.1% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $4.4m. It paid $1.6m in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $28.0m against liabilities of $8.8m, net assets of $19.2m. It reported 138 employees.