Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Sullivant Housing Inc

Analysis

Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Sullivant Housing Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbus, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover housing and shelter, which this site groups under housing and shelter. 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 June 2023, Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Sullivant Housing Inc reported income of $381k and spending of $437k, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $378k to $381k (+1.0%), an average of +0.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income dropped by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Sullivant Housing Inc sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St Anna Housing Development Fund Company Inc ($381k), Parmenter Place ($382k) and Hearthstone Elderly Housing Corporation ($381k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 51% and program service revenue 49% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $132k, net assets of $1.7m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.