Southwestern Community Action Council Inc

Analysis

Southwestern Community Action Council Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Huntington, WV. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1967, 59 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a governmental unit under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Southwestern Community Action Council Inc reported income of $18.9m and spending of $20.9m, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $13.8m to $18.9m (+37%), an average of +8.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Southwestern Community Action Council Inc sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within WV. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Foothills Gateway Inc ($18.9m), Presbyterian Villages of Michigan ($19.0m) and Epworth Childrens Home ($18.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 83% and program service revenue 9.8% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $9.9m. At year end it held assets of $3.6m against liabilities of $1.5m, net assets of $2.1m. It reported 552 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.