Association of Defense Communities

Analysis

Association of Defense Communities is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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 December 2023, Association of Defense Communities reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.8m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $1.7m (+24%), an average of +5.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Association of Defense Communities sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 64th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Imagination Lab School ($1.7m), Notley Impact ($1.7m) and Scago Educational Facilities Corporation for Colleton School Di ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 21% and program service revenue 79% of the total. At year end it held assets of $581k against liabilities of $437k, net assets of $145k.

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.