National Assistance League

Analysis

National Assistance League is a registered charity in United States, based in Wilmington, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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 May 2024, National Assistance League reported income of $631k and spending of $534k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2020 to May 2024, income grew from $323k to $631k (+95%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2022, when income rose by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, National Assistance League sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Houston Freedmens Town Conservancy Inc ($631k), North Kohala Community Resource Center ($631k) and Florida Economic Consortium on Violence & Crime Inc ($630k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending May 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $857k against liabilities of $46k, net assets of $811k.