Civic Literacy and Service Project

Analysis

Civic Literacy and Service Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Truckee, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1998, 28 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, Civic Literacy and Service Project reported income of $93k and spending of $91k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $114k to $93k (-19%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 19%. 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, Civic Literacy and Service Project sits at the 34th percentile: it is larger than about 34% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile, and in the 37th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Illumination Festival Inc ($93k), Sweetgrass Lodge Bequest Fund Inc ($93k) and Insight Collaborative Inc ($93k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 3.3% and program service revenue 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $40k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $40k.