Committee on Sustainability Assessment

Analysis

Committee on Sustainability Assessment is a registered charity in United States, based in Philadelphia, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, 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 December 2023, Committee on Sustainability Assessment reported income of $1.3m and spending of $2.3m, spending 179% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $858k to $1.3m (+51%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 613%. Over the whole period it spent 57% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Committee on Sustainability Assessment sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 80th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mental Health Programs Inc IV ($1.3m), St Josephs Social Care and Thrift Store ($1.3m) and Family and Childcare Resources of Northeast Wisconsin Inc ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 26% and program service revenue 72% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $437k (19% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $436k. At year end it held assets of $4.0m against liabilities of $530k, net assets of $3.5m. It reported 8 employees.