Ecumenical Community III

Analysis

Ecumenical Community III is a registered charity in United States, based in Hershey, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2000, 26 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Ecumenical Community III reported income of $527k and spending of $264k, leaving 50% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $584k to $527k (-9.8%), an average of -2.5% a year. Over the whole period it spent 52% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Ecumenical Community III sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 69th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ahead Inc ($526k), Groton Affordable Housing Inc ($527k) and NJ Hand Inc ($526k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.4m against liabilities of $1.7m, net assets of $1.8m.