Spanish Community Center

Analysis

Spanish Community Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Joliet, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1969, 57 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, Spanish Community Center reported income of $2.4m and spending of $2.2m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $2.4m (+129%), an average of +23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 78%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Spanish Community Center sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include New Hope for Women Inc ($2.4m), Baxter Community Center ($2.4m) and Child Care Connection Inc ($2.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 87% and program service revenue 13% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $497k, net assets of $584k. It reported 47 employees.