Connections for Abused Women and Their Children

Analysis

Connections for Abused Women and Their Children is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1978, 48 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 June 2023, Connections for Abused Women and Their Children reported income of $6.1m and spending of $5.3m, spending 87% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income grew from $2.4m to $6.1m (+150%), an average of +36% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Connections for Abused Women and Their Children sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Higher Horizons Day Care Center Inc ($6.1m), Little Sisters of the Poor of Kansas City ($6.1m) and Furniture Bank ($6.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $459k (8.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.6m. At year end it held assets of $6.0m against liabilities of $242k, net assets of $5.8m. It reported 58 employees.