Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council Inc

Analysis

Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Milwaukee, WI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1985, 41 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 2023, Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council Inc reported income of $1.9m and spending of $2.5m, spending 133% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.9m (+58%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 106%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council Inc sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Housing Resources Bainbridge ($1.9m), Amesbury Gardens Tenants Association Inc ($1.9m) and Riverview Hope Campus ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% and program service revenue 0.3% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $236k (9.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $2.7m against liabilities of $445k, net assets of $2.3m. It reported 20 employees.