Community Services United

Analysis

Community Services United is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Community Services United reported income of $195k and spending of $235k, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $264k to $195k (-26%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Community Services United 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 53rd percentile, and in the 55th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Greater Luna County Economic Opportunity Council ($195k), Neighborhood Care Center Inc ($195k) and Enterprise Development & Management Corporation ($194k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 9.9% and program service revenue 88% of the total. At year end it held assets of $90k against liabilities of $94k, net assets of -$3,553.