Manhattan Emergency Shelter Inc

Analysis

Manhattan Emergency Shelter Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Manhattan, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1984, 42 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, Manhattan Emergency Shelter Inc reported income of $793k and spending of $872k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.0m to $793k (-22%), an average of -6.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Manhattan Emergency Shelter 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 77th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Nutley Episcopal Senior Housing Inc ($792k), Tallahassee RHF Housing Inc ($793k) and Georgia Communities Inc ($792k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 102% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $175k (20% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $340k. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $38k, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 19 employees.