Paz de Cristo Community Center

Analysis

Paz de Cristo Community Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Mesa, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, 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 June 2023, Paz de Cristo Community Center reported income of $2.3m and spending of $2.6m, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $2.2m to $2.3m (+2.8%), an average of +0.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Paz de Cristo Community Center 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 85th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Jobs for Tennessee Graduates Inc ($2.3m), Common Market Georgia Incorporated ($2.3m) and Garth House Mickey Mehaffy Childrens Advocacy Program Inc ($2.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $104k (4.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $510k. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $37k, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 19 employees.