Washington County Community Action Council Inc

Analysis

Washington County Community Action Council Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Hagerstown, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1966, 60 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 September 2023, Washington County Community Action Council Inc reported income of $16.3m and spending of $16.3m, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $6.5m to $16.3m (+149%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 82%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Washington County Community Action Council Inc sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Starvista ($16.3m), Mental Health Mental Retardation Authority of Brazos Valley ($16.3m) and Make the Road States Inc ($16.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% and program service revenue 4.8% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $231k (1.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.5m. At year end it held assets of $4.6m against liabilities of $3.2m, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 54 employees.