Community Organizing and Family Issues

Analysis

Community Organizing and Family Issues is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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 September 2023, Community Organizing and Family Issues reported income of $4.7m and spending of $3.3m, leaving 30% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $2.0m to $4.7m (+137%), an average of +24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 68% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Community Organizing and Family Issues 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 92nd percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Delta Human Resource Agency ($4.7m), Janus Developmental Services Inc ($4.7m) and Mid-Atlantic States Career and Education Center ($4.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% and program service revenue 2.3% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $117k (3.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.4m. At year end it held assets of $7.2m against liabilities of $921k, net assets of $6.3m. It reported 51 employees.