Linn County Advocate Inc

Analysis

Linn County Advocate Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Cedar Rapids, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1993, 33 years ago. 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, Linn County Advocate Inc reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.4m, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.6m (+44%), an average of +9.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Linn County Advocate Inc sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include C N Wodehouse Faculty Benefit Trust at Seabury Hall ($1.6m), Boy Scouts of America ($1.6m) and Shelby County United Way Inc ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 3.7% and program service revenue 95% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $286k (21% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $696k. At year end it held assets of $738k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $738k.