Columbus Organizing Project

Analysis

Columbus Organizing Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbus, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Columbus Organizing Project reported income of $404k and spending of $406k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $298k to $404k (+36%), an average of +8.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Columbus Organizing Project sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Historic Hillsboro Downtown Partnership ($404k), Egbert M Freese Foundation ($404k) and District 742 Local Education & Activities Foundation ($404k).

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 $71k (17% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $151k. At year end it held assets of $66k against liabilities of $2,321, net assets of $63k. It reported 6 employees.