West Georgia Domestic Violence Shelter Inc

Analysis

West Georgia Domestic Violence Shelter Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Carrollton, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1986, 40 years ago. Its declared purposes cover housing and shelter, which this site groups under housing and shelter. 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, West Georgia Domestic Violence Shelter Inc reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.3m, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.2m (+9.6%), an average of +2.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 54%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, West Georgia Domestic Violence Shelter Inc sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 85th percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cranbury Housing Associates ($1.2m), Union Retirement Association ($1.2m) and Noahs House ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $705k. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $6,480, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 32 employees.

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.