Bastrop County Cares

Analysis

Bastrop County Cares is a registered charity in United States, based in Bastrop, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Bastrop County Cares reported income of $360k and spending of $1.6m, spending 434% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $575k to $360k (-37%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 108%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Bastrop County Cares sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Slovenska Pristava Inc ($360k), Helping Hands Society of Hazleton Area Schuylkill and Carbon County ($360k) and Hidden Treasures Thrift Shoppe Inc ($360k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $512k. At year end it held assets of $359k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $359k. It reported 9 employees.