Housing Our Own-Wilmette

Analysis

Housing Our Own-Wilmette is a registered charity in United States, based in Wilmette, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2015, 11 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 December 2023, Housing Our Own-Wilmette reported income of $52k and spending of $90k, spending 174% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $68k to $52k (-24%), an average of -24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 142% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Housing Our Own-Wilmette sits at the 18th percentile: it is larger than about 18% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 20th percentile, and in the 22nd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Adams Cameron Foundation Inc ($52k), Lighthouse Child & Family Development Center ($52k) and All Our Kids ($52k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 85% of the total. At year end it held assets of $189k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $189k.