Ecumenical Housing Corporation

Analysis

Ecumenical Housing Corporation is a registered charity in United States, based in Iowa City, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1980, 46 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, Ecumenical Housing Corporation reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.0m, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.3m (+3.7%), an average of +0.9% a year. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Ecumenical Housing Corporation sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 84th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oakland Lacrosse Club ($1.3m), Dress for Success Triangle NC ($1.3m) and Morton County Council on Aging Inc ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 2.2% and program service revenue 93% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $171k. At year end it held assets of $4.1m against liabilities of $2.8m, net assets of $1.2m.