The Outreach Center

Analysis

The Outreach Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Morganton, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2025. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 2021, The Outreach Center reported income of $14.5m and spending of $14.4m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2021, income grew from $3.5m to $14.5m (+318%), an average of +104% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 194%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Outreach Center 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 96th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Samaritan Housing Foundation Inc ($14.5m), Wingspan Care Group ($14.5m) and Family Counseling Center of Armstrong County ($14.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2021, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $306k. At year end it held assets of $2.6m against liabilities of $561k, net assets of $2.0m. It reported 12 employees.