Saint Johns Communities Inc

Analysis

Saint Johns Communities Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Milwaukee, WI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1941, 85 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 2023, Saint Johns Communities Inc reported income of $35.5m and spending of $36.5m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $22.4m to $35.5m (+59%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Saint Johns Communities Inc sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile, and in the 98th percentile within WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Action Partnership of San Bernardino County ($35.4m), Beatitudes Campus of Care ($35.5m) and Wake Robin Corp ($35.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 2.4% and program service revenue 88% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $641k (1.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $11.7m. At year end it held assets of $251.4m against liabilities of $260.0m, net assets of -$8.6m. It reported 332 employees.

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.