Nehemiah Expansion

Analysis

Nehemiah Expansion is a registered charity in United States, based in Springfield, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2000, 26 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 2022, Nehemiah Expansion reported income of $699k and spending of $778k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $849k to $699k (-18%), an average of -6.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Nehemiah Expansion sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Shelby County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc ($699k), Hope in a Suitcase ($699k) and American Association of Single Parents ($699k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 12% and program service revenue 104% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $426k. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $1.5m, net assets of $220k. It reported 20 employees.