City of Refuge

Analysis

City of Refuge is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbia, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2011, 15 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, City of Refuge reported income of $1.1m and spending of $900k, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $391k to $1.1m (+194%), an average of +24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 106%. Over the whole period it spent 62% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, City of Refuge sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 79th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Madison County Service Coordination Inc ($1.1m), Harrison County Commission on Aging Inc ($1.1m) and Women in Transition Inc ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% and program service revenue 9.2% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $68k (7.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $446k. At year end it held assets of $3.5m against liabilities of $1.4m, net assets of $2.1m. It reported 16 employees.