Harrisburg Fair Housing Council Inc

Analysis

Harrisburg Fair Housing Council Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Harrisburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1977, 49 years ago. Its declared purposes cover housing and shelter, which this site groups under housing and shelter. 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, Harrisburg Fair Housing Council Inc reported income of $179k and spending of $230k, spending 129% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $134k to $179k (+34%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 96%. Over the whole period it spent 122% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Harrisburg Fair Housing Council Inc sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 49th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include LA Playa Apartments ($179k), San Antonio Supportive Housing Inc ($179k) and Timberlawn Place Inc ($179k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 74% and program service revenue 12% of the total. At year end it held assets of $28k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $28k.

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.