Ames Ecumenical Housing Inc

Analysis

Ames Ecumenical Housing Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in WDM, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2025. Its declared purposes cover housing and shelter, which this site groups under housing and shelter. 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 June 2023, Ames Ecumenical Housing Inc reported income of $1.1m and spending of $982k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.1m (+5.5%), an average of +1.8% a year. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Ames Ecumenical Housing Inc sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chestnut Creek Inc ($1.1m), St Dominic Health Services Foundation Inc ($1.1m) and Downtown Churches United-Gillfield Housing Corporation ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $150k. At year end it held assets of $2.6m against liabilities of $3.1m, net assets of -$486k.