Chesed Shel Emeth Society

Analysis

Chesed Shel Emeth Society is a registered charity in United States, based in Chesterfield, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1952, 74 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 October 2023, Chesed Shel Emeth Society reported income of $658k and spending of $552k, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2019 to October 2023, income grew from $473k to $658k (+39%), an average of +8.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2021, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Chesed Shel Emeth Society sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include CC Mellor Memorial Library & Edgewood Community House ($658k), St Louis Psychoanalytic Institute ($658k) and Vietnamese League of Orange County ($658k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending October 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.1% and program service revenue 78% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $61k (11% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $233k. At year end it held assets of $4.0m against liabilities of $18k, net assets of $4.0m. It reported 12 employees.