Compassion Way Inc

Analysis

Compassion Way Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Chesterfield, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, Compassion Way Inc reported income of $177k and spending of $183k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $206k to $177k (-14%), an average of -7.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Compassion Way Inc sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 48th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Haiti Providence University ($177k), Friends of the Legal Resources Centre of South Africa ($177k) and Wisconsin Cyber Threat Response Alliance ($177k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $300. At year end it held assets of $29k against liabilities of $21k, net assets of $7,737.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.