Ithaca Downtown Business Improvement District Inc

Analysis

Ithaca Downtown Business Improvement District Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Ithaca, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2007, 19 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, Ithaca Downtown Business Improvement District Inc reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.7m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.7m (+55%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Ithaca Downtown Business Improvement District Inc sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 81st percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Georgia Strategic Alliance for New Direction and Unified Policies ($1.7m), Village of Healing ($1.7m) and Point Forward Inc ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 73% and program service revenue 27% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $72k (4.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $556k. At year end it held assets of $991k against liabilities of $442k, net assets of $549k. It reported 31 employees.