Jewish Studies Center Inc

Analysis

Jewish Studies Center Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Charleston, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, 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, Jewish Studies Center Inc reported income of $132k and spending of $126k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $295k to $132k (-55%), an average of -18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 119%. Over the whole period it spent 62% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Jewish Studies Center Inc sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile, and in the 50th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Auburn Rotary Community Fund ($132k), Durham C a N-Congregations Associations and Neighborhoods ($132k) and Educational Foundation of the Georgia Society of Cpas Inc ($132k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% and program service revenue 3.5% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $4,838, net assets of $1.1m.