Housing Link

Analysis

Housing Link is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Paul, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1998, 28 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, Housing Link reported income of $961k and spending of $1.3m, spending 139% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.1m to $961k (-12%), an average of -3.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 120%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Housing Link sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include DGN Inc ($961k), NCC Neumann Senior Housing Corporation ($961k) and Rehoboth AFC Inc ($961k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% and program service revenue 9.6% of the total. At year end it held assets of $718k against liabilities of $102k, net assets of $617k.