LA Paz de Dios

Analysis

LA Paz de Dios is a registered charity in United States, based in Chattanooga, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2005, 21 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, LA Paz de Dios reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.3m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.3m to $1.4m (+7.8%), an average of +1.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 63%. Over the whole period it spent 68% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, LA Paz de Dios sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 84th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Water by Women Inc ($1.4m), Orcas Daycare Association ($1.4m) and Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% and program service revenue 2.7% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $93k (7.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $468k. At year end it held assets of $2.8m against liabilities of $419k, net assets of $2.4m. It reported 13 employees.