Alternative Community Training Inc

Analysis

Alternative Community Training Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbia, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1976, 50 years ago. Its declared purposes cover employment, which this site groups under community and economic development. The IRS classifies it as a school under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending September 2023, Alternative Community Training Inc reported income of $16.3m and spending of $13.2m, spending 81% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $8.4m to $16.3m (+93%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 376%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Alternative Community Training Inc sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include BCMW Community Services ($16.3m), Community Action Program Commission of the Lancaster-Fairfield County ($16.3m) and Mountainheart Community Servces Inc ($16.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 6.5% and program service revenue 93% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $359k (2.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $9.4m. At year end it held assets of $12.8m against liabilities of $3.0m, net assets of $9.8m. It reported 296 employees.