Desplaines Community Senior Center

Analysis

Desplaines Community Senior Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Des Plaines, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1977, 49 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Desplaines Community Senior Center reported income of $630k and spending of $730k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $787k to $630k (-20%), an average of -5.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Desplaines Community Senior Center sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Frozen Food Foundation ($630k), Little Light of Mine Inc ($630k) and We Are One United Inc ($630k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 68% and program service revenue 23% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $122k (17% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $226k. At year end it held assets of $3.4m against liabilities of $1.6m, net assets of $1.8m. It reported 11 employees.