Friends of the Scituate Shelter Inc

Analysis

Friends of the Scituate Shelter Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Scituate, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1990, 36 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, Friends of the Scituate Shelter Inc reported income of $767k and spending of $930k, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $866k to $767k (-11%), an average of -3.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 51%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Friends of the Scituate Shelter Inc sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Presbyterian Home of Maryland Inc ($767k), Fork Over Love ($767k) and Community Agricultural and Nutritional Enterprises Inc ($766k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 55% and program service revenue 17% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $411k. At year end it held assets of $3.7m against liabilities of $300k, net assets of $3.4m. It reported 19 employees.