Arella Communities

Analysis

Arella Communities is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 December 2023, Arella Communities reported income of $564k and spending of $714k, spending 127% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $252k to $564k (+124%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 107%. Over the whole period it spent 61% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Arella Communities sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 76th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Good Neighbor Center ($564k), Trauma Resolution Center Inc ($564k) and Jacksons Pay It Forward Foundation Inc ($564k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.0m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.0m.