S O S Shelter Inc

Analysis

S O S Shelter Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Endicott, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1979, 47 years ago. 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, S O S Shelter Inc reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.2m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.3m to $1.3m (+1.3%), an average of +0.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, S O S Shelter Inc sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 79th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Boys & Girls Club of the South Coast Area ($1.3m), Moonstone Inc ($1.3m) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 54% and program service revenue 43% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $69k (5.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $711k. At year end it held assets of $2.0m against liabilities of $69k, net assets of $1.9m. It reported 32 employees.