Church Women United

Analysis

Church Women United is a registered charity in United States, based in Centralia, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1976, 50 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, Church Women United reported income of $99k and spending of $129k, spending 131% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $223k to $99k (-56%), an average of -18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 77%. Over the whole period it spent 222% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Church Women United sits at the 32nd percentile: it is larger than about 32% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile, and in the 37th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rotary International Mid South Pets ($99k), Ladawn Quarter Horses Therapeutic Riding Center ($99k) and Waldo County Woodshed ($99k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 13% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.3m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.3m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.