Samaritan Outreach Center

Analysis

Samaritan Outreach Center is a registered charity in United States, based in West Plains, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover housing and shelter, which this site groups under housing and shelter. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Samaritan Outreach Center reported income of $180k and spending of $170k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $115k to $180k (+57%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 96%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Samaritan Outreach Center sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 49th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ashtabula County Community Housing Development Organization Inc ($180k), Deerfield Beach Family Empowerment Inc ($180k) and Dogwood Manor Apartment Inc ($180k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $82k. At year end it held assets of $659k against liabilities of $21k, net assets of $638k. It reported 3 employees.