Labette County Emergency Assistance

Analysis

Labette County Emergency Assistance is a registered charity in United States, based in Parsons, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2001, 25 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, Labette County Emergency Assistance reported income of $247k and spending of $251k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $256k to $247k (-3.5%), an average of -0.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Labette County Emergency Assistance sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Next 18 Inc ($247k), Rural Alternative for Transportation Raft ($247k) and Hastings Good Samaritan Housing Inc ($247k).

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 $56k. At year end it held assets of $122k against liabilities of $1,763, net assets of $120k. It reported 6 employees.

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.