Christian Services Corporation

Analysis

Christian Services Corporation is a registered charity in United States, based in Westminster, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 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 December 2023, Christian Services Corporation reported income of $210k and spending of $308k, spending 147% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $340k to $210k (-38%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 103%. Over the whole period it spent 119% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Christian Services Corporation sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 38% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 57th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Prairie Home Inc ($210k), Carolina Housing and Community Development Corporation ($210k) and Monhegan Island Sustainable Community Association ($210k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 3.4% and program service revenue 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $26k against liabilities of $35k, net assets of -$9,239.

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.