Citizen Advocacy Center

Analysis

Citizen Advocacy Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Elmhurst, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. 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, Citizen Advocacy Center reported income of $125k and spending of $239k, spending 191% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $188k to $125k (-34%), an average of -9.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 134%. Over the whole period it spent 72% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Citizen Advocacy Center sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile, and in the 43rd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Maui County Children Justice Committee ($125k), Santa Monica Black Lives Association ($125k) and West Virginia Corrections Training Foundation ($124k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $384k against liabilities of $4,877, net assets of $379k.