Community Assistance Providers

Analysis

Community Assistance Providers is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbia, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2001, 25 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 2022, Community Assistance Providers reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.3m, leaving 23% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income grew from $1.4m to $1.7m (+20%), an average of +6.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 64%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Community Assistance Providers sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sebco Housing Development Fund ($1.7m), Autumn House Inc ($1.7m) and Crossroads Communities ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.1% and program service revenue 77% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $163k. At year end it held assets of $10.6m against liabilities of $6.0m, net assets of $4.6m. It reported 5 employees.