Comunidad Connect

Analysis

Comunidad Connect is a registered charity in United States, based in Decatur, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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 July 2023, Comunidad Connect reported income of $354k and spending of $387k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2018 to July 2023, income fell from $599k to $354k (-41%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2020, when income dropped by 45%. Over the whole period it spent 70% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Comunidad Connect sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc ($354k), Ministry Builders Inc ($354k) and Fundacion Tzedaka USA Inc ($354k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending July 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 48% and program service revenue 52% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $106k. At year end it held assets of $79k against liabilities of $126k, net assets of -$47k. It reported 2 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.