Ottawa Valley Center Incorporated

Analysis

Ottawa Valley Center Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Lima, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Ottawa Valley Center Incorporated reported income of $536k and spending of $613k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $469k to $536k (+14%), an average of +3.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Ottawa Valley Center Incorporated sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tucson Refugee Ministry ($536k), Mission at the Cross ($536k) and Friends of Little Portion Friary a K a Little Portion Friary ($536k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 3.5% and program service revenue 93% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $64k (10% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $338k. At year end it held assets of $258k against liabilities of $7,898, net assets of $250k. It reported 19 employees.

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.