Center for Community Self-Help

Analysis

Center for Community Self-Help is a registered charity in United States, based in Durham, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1981, 45 years ago. Its declared purposes cover employment, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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, Center for Community Self-Help reported income of $3.2m and spending of $2.5m, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.4m to $3.2m (+37%), an average of +8.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 516%. Over the whole period it spent 60% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Center for Community Self-Help sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Progressive Workshop of Armstrong County Inc ($3.2m), Journalism Funding Partners ($3.2m) and Audio Engineering Society Inc ($3.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 51% and program service revenue 38% of the total. At year end it held assets of $55.2m against liabilities of $11.1m, net assets of $44.1m.