Community Shelter Services Inc

Analysis

Community Shelter Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Erie, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1980, 46 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 June 2023, Community Shelter Services Inc reported income of $2.3m and spending of $2.4m, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $1.7m to $2.3m (+36%), an average of +8.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Community Shelter Services Inc sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mid-Peninsula Seven Trees Inc ($2.3m), Habitat for Humanity International Inc ($2.3m) and SW Texas Housing Service Res Inc ($2.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 79% and program service revenue 13% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. At year end it held assets of $3.5m against liabilities of $579k, net assets of $2.9m. It reported 20 employees.