Emergency Shelter Services Inc

Analysis

Emergency Shelter Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Benton Harbor, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1980, 46 years ago. Its declared purposes cover housing and shelter, which this site groups under housing and shelter. 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 2022, Emergency Shelter Services Inc reported income of $7.8m and spending of $7.9m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income grew from $1.5m to $7.8m (+421%), an average of +73% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 277%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Emergency Shelter Services Inc sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 94th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Catholic Charities Housing Services Diocese of Yakima ($7.8m), Mercy Housing and Shelter Corporation ($7.8m) and Ridge Oak Inc ($7.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 1.4% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $907k. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $844k, net assets of $295k. It reported 45 employees.