Mizpah Assisted Living Services

Analysis

Mizpah Assisted Living Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Louis, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1997, 29 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 May 2023, Mizpah Assisted Living Services reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.4m, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2019 to May 2023, income fell from $1.6m to $1.2m (-24%), an average of -6.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2022, when income dropped by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Mizpah Assisted Living Services sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 79th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Carolina Family Services Inc ($1.2m), Alma Backyard Farm ($1.2m) and Side by Side Kids Inc ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending May 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $517k. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $2.5m, net assets of -$1.0m. It reported 42 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.