Kanawha Institute for Social Research & Action Inc

Analysis

Kanawha Institute for Social Research & Action Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Dunbar, WV. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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, Kanawha Institute for Social Research & Action Inc reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.4m, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.5m to $1.4m (-44%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Kanawha Institute for Social Research & Action Inc sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within WV. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Latino Educational Training Institute ($1.4m), Third Space Foundation ($1.4m) and Intiwasi ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 79% and program service revenue 0.6% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $587k. At year end it held assets of $816k against liabilities of $1.0m, net assets of -$196k. It reported 40 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.