Ascension Community Awareness Emergency Response Committee

Analysis

Ascension Community Awareness Emergency Response Committee is a registered charity in United States, based in Geismar, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public safety, disaster preparedness and relief, which this site groups under armed forces, emergency and public safety. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Ascension Community Awareness Emergency Response Committee reported income of $232k and spending of $185k, spending 80% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $225k to $232k (+3.1%), an average of +1.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 9,128 United States charities whose main cause is armed forces, emergency and public safety and that reported income, Ascension Community Awareness Emergency Response Committee sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Manoghick Volunteer Fire Department ($232k), Cornplanter Township Volunteer Fire Department ($232k) and Unionport Volunteer Fire & Rescue Inc ($232k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $497k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $497k.