A Caring Community

Analysis

A Caring Community is a registered charity in United States, based in Kittery, ME. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2012, 14 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, A Caring Community reported income of $824k and spending of $779k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $643k to $824k (+28%), an average of +6.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, A Caring Community sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 74th percentile within ME. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Out Side in Inc ($824k), Little Wishes ($824k) and Positive Care Personal Care Homes Inc ($824k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $94k (12% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $146k. At year end it held assets of $750k against liabilities of $113k, net assets of $637k. It reported 15 employees.