Community Development Alternatives Inc

Analysis

Community Development Alternatives Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in PR du Chien, WI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2003, 23 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, Community Development Alternatives Inc reported income of $379k and spending of $244k, leaving 36% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $246k to $379k (+54%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Community Development Alternatives Inc sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Herkimer Affordable Housing Inc ($379k), George Gervin Retirement Apartments ($379k) and Ahepa 310-Xi Inc ($379k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 55% and program service revenue 43% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $86k. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $174k, net assets of $1.2m. It reported 7 employees.