Lafayette Square Restoration Committee

Analysis

Lafayette Square Restoration Committee is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Louis, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1977, 49 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 2023, Lafayette Square Restoration Committee reported income of $174k and spending of $144k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $267k to $174k (-35%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 64% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Lafayette Square Restoration Committee sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 48th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Crisis Relief and Recovery ($174k), Falls Church Endowment Fund Inc ($174k) and Delevan-Yorkshire Public Library ($174k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 25% and program service revenue 68% of the total. At year end it held assets of $465k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $465k.