Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League Inc

Analysis

Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Wilmington, DE. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1999, 27 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, Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League Inc reported income of $773k and spending of $895k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $477k to $773k (+62%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 93%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League Inc sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within DE. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include B & B Academy Homes Inc ($773k), Fauquier Community Food Bank and Thrift Store ($773k) and Okmulgee County Family Resource Center Inc ($773k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 1.4% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $105k (12% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $325k. At year end it held assets of $579k against liabilities of $46k, net assets of $534k. It reported 30 employees.