Take the City Inc

Analysis

Take the City Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbus, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 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 (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, Take the City Inc reported income of $566k and spending of $589k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $553k to $566k (+2.3%), an average of +0.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Take the City Inc sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 76th percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Holding Out Help Inc ($566k), Nicks Community ($566k) and Chaplains on the Harbor ($566k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 1.6% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $53k (9.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $176k. At year end it held assets of $744k against liabilities of $20k, net assets of $724k. It reported 26 employees.