Dawns Place

Analysis

Dawns Place is a registered charity in United States, based in Philadelphia, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2008, 18 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, Dawns Place reported income of $542k and spending of $646k, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $400k to $542k (+35%), an average of +7.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Dawns Place sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 70th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Project Play School Incorporated ($542k), Center for Racial Justice in Education Inc ($542k) and Servant Mission Inc ($542k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $377k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.2m. It reported 11 employees.