Supportive Services Corp

Analysis

Supportive Services Corp is a registered charity in United States, based in Buffalo, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1977, 49 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, Supportive Services Corp reported income of $3.6m and spending of $3.6m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.6m to $3.6m (+39%), an average of +8.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Supportive Services Corp sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Children and Family Services Inc ($3.6m), Let Them Live Action Corporation ($3.6m) and South Coast Horizons ($3.6m).

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 $111k (3.1% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.9m. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $1.5m, net assets of $303k. It reported 109 employees.