Mary S Shelter Inc

Analysis

Mary S Shelter Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Fredericksbrg, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2007, 19 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, Mary S Shelter Inc reported income of $898k and spending of $753k, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $562k to $898k (+60%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 66% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Mary S Shelter Inc sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Simply Hygiene Inc ($898k), Rural Enterprise for Acceptable Living Inc ($898k) and Gigis House Inc ($898k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 54% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $276k. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $363k, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 12 employees.