West Side Community Services Inc

Analysis

West Side Community Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Buffalo, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1978, 48 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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, West Side Community Services Inc reported income of $836k and spending of $698k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $470k to $836k (+78%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, West Side Community Services Inc sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Swan Vocational Enterprises ($836k), Unlimited Possibilties Inc ($836k) and Equity Impact Center ($836k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% and program service revenue 0.9% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $86k (12% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $285k. At year end it held assets of $672k against liabilities of $27k, net assets of $645k. It reported 21 employees.