Rogers Park Community Council

Analysis

Rogers Park Community Council is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1964, 62 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Rogers Park Community Council reported income of $965k and spending of $992k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $342k to $965k (+182%), an average of +30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income rose by 94%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Rogers Park Community Council sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cooper Square Community Development Committee Inc ($964k), German American Chamber of Commerce California Inc ($965k) and Crossroads Industries Inc ($963k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 1.2% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $606k. At year end it held assets of $504k against liabilities of $453k, net assets of $51k. It reported 14 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.