Bethel Winter Shelter Lions Club

Analysis

Bethel Winter Shelter Lions Club is a registered charity in United States, based in Bethel, AK. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2017, 9 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 (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, Bethel Winter Shelter Lions Club reported income of $545k and spending of $624k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2023, income fell from $767k to $545k (-29%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income dropped by 45%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Bethel Winter Shelter Lions Club sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 68th percentile within AK. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Club Dust Inc ($545k), Hispanic Housing Services Inc Villa at Sacred Heart ($545k) and Baldwin Retirement Apartment Complex Inc ($545k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $169k. At year end it held assets of $62k against liabilities of $62k, net assets of -$610. It reported 18 employees.