City Light Community Development Corporation

Analysis

City Light Community Development Corporation is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbia, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religion-related, which this site groups under religion. 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, City Light Community Development Corporation reported income of $58k and spending of $76k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $86k to $58k (-32%), an average of -9.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 137%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 31,138 United States charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, City Light Community Development Corporation sits at the 25th percentile: it is larger than about 25% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 23rd percentile, and in the 29th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include American Jewish Heritage Organization Inc ($58k), Besserat Evangelical Society ($58k) and Christian Discipleship Ministries ($58k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $82k against liabilities of $82k, net assets of $0.