Essex County Legal Aid Association

Analysis

Essex County Legal Aid Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Newark, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1941, 85 years ago. 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 2021, Essex County Legal Aid Association reported income of $77k and spending of $171k, spending 221% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2021, income fell from $140k to $77k (-45%), an average of -26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 104%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Essex County Legal Aid Association sits at the 30th percentile: it is larger than about 30% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 30th percentile, and in the 38th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Quilters Guild of Plano ($77k), Study Zone of South Florida Inc ($77k) and Vidya Jyoti- Global Education Opportunity Foundation ($77k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2021, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $66k (39% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $30k. At year end it held assets of $140k against liabilities of $85k, net assets of $55k. It reported 3 employees.