Dorchester County Community Outreach

Analysis

Dorchester County Community Outreach is a registered charity in United States, based in Summerville, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2016, 10 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 December 2023, Dorchester County Community Outreach reported income of $367k and spending of $425k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $280k to $367k (+31%), an average of +7.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 79%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Dorchester County Community Outreach sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 70th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rebuilding Together Sandoval County ($367k), Franklin-Vance-Warren-Wilson Housing of Wilson Inc ($367k) and Pacific Villa Housing Development Council ($367k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 101% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $198k. At year end it held assets of $854k against liabilities of $532k, net assets of $322k. It reported 9 employees.