Resources for Rural Community Development

Analysis

Resources for Rural Community Development is a registered charity in United States, based in Redding, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 June 2023, Resources for Rural Community Development reported income of $2.0m and spending of $2.4m, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $1.0m to $2.0m (+89%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 93%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Resources for Rural Community Development sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gateway Youth Outreach Inc ($2.0m), Jewish Home Foundation of North Jersey Inc ($2.0m) and Extrafood Org ($2.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 47% and program service revenue 39% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $263k. At year end it held assets of $7.3m against liabilities of $1.9m, net assets of $5.4m.

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.