Zion Housing Inc

Analysis

Zion Housing Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Louis, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2001, 25 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 December 2023, Zion Housing Inc reported income of $237k and spending of $269k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $212k to $237k (+11%), an average of +2.8% a year. Over the whole period it spent 119% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Zion Housing Inc sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 54th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Compass Center Housing Development ($237k), Our Front Porch ($237k) and B L Trevathan Hatler E Morgan Elderly Housing Inc ($237k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $31k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $2.9m, net assets of -$1.2m.

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.