India Development Service

Analysis

India Development Service is a registered charity in United States, based in Oak Park, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1974, 52 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, India Development Service reported income of $192k and spending of $169k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $251k to $192k (-23%), an average of -6.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, India Development Service sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 53rd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Childrens Benefit League ($192k), Institute for Fisheries Resources ($192k) and Whats Next Ministry ($192k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 78% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $3,760. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.4m.