West Alabama Works Inc

Analysis

West Alabama Works Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Tuscaloosa, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover employment, 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 December 2023, West Alabama Works Inc reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.2m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $554k to $1.2m (+124%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 95%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, West Alabama Works Inc sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 85th percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Black Researchers Collective ($1.2m), Community Closet Inc ($1.2m) and Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency Inc ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.0m against liabilities of $984k, net assets of $29k.