Community Affairs & Resource Center

Analysis

Community Affairs & Resource Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Asbury Park, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1981, 45 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, Community Affairs & Resource Center reported income of $6.6m and spending of $5.9m, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $6.6m (+386%), an average of +48% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 69%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Community Affairs & Resource Center sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 94th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Family Life Services Inc ($6.6m), Jewish Community Center of Akron ($6.6m) and Brookwood in Georgetown Vocational ($6.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $2.7m. At year end it held assets of $2.9m against liabilities of $1.3m, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 83 employees.