Gorton Community Center

Analysis

Gorton Community Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Lake Forest, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1987, 39 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, Gorton Community Center reported income of $2.2m and spending of $2.6m, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.6m to $2.2m (+39%), an average of +8.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Gorton Community Center sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include McKinley Home Foundation ($2.2m), Hidden Harvest Corporation ($2.2m) and Hancock County Food Pantry Inc ($2.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 35% and program service revenue 57% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $9.5m against liabilities of $168k, net assets of $9.3m. It reported 47 employees.