Common Sense Adoption Services

Analysis

Common Sense Adoption Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Mechanicsburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1993, 33 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, Common Sense Adoption Services reported income of $728k and spending of $881k, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.1m to $728k (-35%), an average of -10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Common Sense Adoption Services sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 74th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include New Ventures Enterprises Inc ($727k), North Big Horn Senior Center Inc ($728k) and Programa Del Adolescente de Naranjito Inc ($727k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $299k. At year end it held assets of $793k against liabilities of $381k, net assets of $412k. It reported 6 employees.

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.