Christopher Community Inc

Analysis

Christopher Community Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Syracuse, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1946, 80 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Christopher Community Inc reported income of $5.5m and spending of $5.7m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $3.7m to $5.5m (+49%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Christopher Community Inc sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 90th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Creative Housing Inc ($5.5m), Saca Development Corporation ($5.5m) and Opelika Housing Development Inc ($5.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 2.5% and program service revenue 91% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $342k (6.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.5m. At year end it held assets of $11.9m against liabilities of $5.2m, net assets of $6.7m. It reported 219 employees.