St James Plaza Inc

Analysis

St James Plaza Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Wilson, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2025. Its declared purposes cover housing and shelter, which this site groups under housing and shelter. 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, St James Plaza Inc reported income of $263k and spending of $328k, spending 125% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from September 2018 to September 2023, income grew from $257k to $263k (+2.3%), an average of +0.5% a year. Over the whole period it spent 127% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, St James Plaza Inc sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 57th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Father Bradley Shelter for Women and Children Inc ($263k), Columbian Retirement Home Inc ($263k) and Blackbelt & Central Alabama Housing Authority ($263k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 41% and program service revenue 58% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $2.7m, net assets of -$1.6m.

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.