Highland Park Community Center

Analysis

Highland Park Community Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Highland Park, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1994, 32 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, Highland Park Community Center reported income of $173k and spending of $180k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $192k to $173k (-9.9%), an average of -2.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 193%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Highland Park Community Center sits at the 45th percentile: it is larger than about 45% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile, and in the 51st percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lil Iguanas Childrens Saftey Foundation ($173k), Waipahu Community Adult Day Health Center & Youth Day Care Center ($173k) and Community Food Pantry ($173k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.3% and program service revenue 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $74k. At year end it held assets of $741k against liabilities of $215k, net assets of $526k. It reported 2 employees.