Creative Employment Opportunities

Analysis

Creative Employment Opportunities is a registered charity in United States, based in Clinton TWP, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover employment, 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 December 2023, Creative Employment Opportunities reported income of $4.1m and spending of $4.0m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $6.1m to $4.1m (-33%), an average of -9.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Creative Employment Opportunities sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 91st percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Renaissance Economic Development Corporation ($4.1m), North American Association of Central Cancer Registries Inc ($4.1m) and Chi Ishobak Inc ($4.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.5% and program service revenue 96% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $2.5m. At year end it held assets of $8.8m against liabilities of $103k, net assets of $8.7m. It reported 150 employees.