Buist Community Assistance Center

Analysis

Buist Community Assistance Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Byron Center, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 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, Buist Community Assistance Center reported income of $6.2m and spending of $6.3m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $4.4m to $6.2m (+39%), an average of +8.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Buist Community Assistance Center sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include El-Ada Inc ($6.2m), Northwest Youth Service ($6.2m) and Northwest Montana Human Resources Inc ($6.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $41k. At year end it held assets of $2.0m against liabilities of $6,380, net assets of $2.0m. It reported 4 employees.