North Star Advocacy Center

Analysis

North Star Advocacy Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Maryville, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 June 2023, North Star Advocacy Center reported income of $430k and spending of $441k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income grew from $305k to $430k (+41%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, North Star Advocacy Center sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 65th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Morgan Center ($430k), Dairy Discovery ($430k) and Baltimore Action Legal Team ($430k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 25% and program service revenue 75% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $217k. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $13k, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 6 employees.