YWCA Southwestern Illinois

Analysis

YWCA Southwestern Illinois is a registered charity in United States, based in Alton, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1956, 70 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, YWCA Southwestern Illinois reported income of $758k and spending of $737k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $454k to $758k (+67%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 132%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, YWCA Southwestern Illinois sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Alex House Project Inc ($758k), Bikur Cholim of Crown Heights ($758k) and Brinkley Heights Ministries Inc ($758k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 34% and program service revenue 61% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $404k. At year end it held assets of $1.0m against liabilities of $212k, net assets of $794k. It reported 40 employees.