Citadel Gardens Inc

Analysis

Citadel Gardens Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Kansas City, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1999, 27 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending March 2023, Citadel Gardens Inc reported income of $457k and spending of $590k, spending 129% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2019 to March 2023, income grew from $391k to $457k (+17%), an average of +4.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 133% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Citadel Gardens Inc sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Habitat for Humanity International Inc ($457k), Jaycee Villa Housing Inc ($458k) and Evergreen Union Retirement Association ($457k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 65% and program service revenue 35% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.4m against liabilities of $5.1m, net assets of -$2.7m.

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.