Wilson Commencement Park

Analysis

Wilson Commencement Park is a registered charity in United States, based in Rochester, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1986, 40 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, Wilson Commencement Park reported income of $447k and spending of $550k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $609k to $447k (-27%), an average of -7.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Wilson Commencement Park sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 64th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Reach Out Foundation of Bucks Co ($447k), Better Wiser Stronger Inc ($447k) and Heart for Orphans Inc ($447k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 61% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $470k, net assets of $591k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.