Gulfcoast Legal Services Inc

Analysis

Gulfcoast Legal Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in St Petersburg, FL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1979, 47 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. 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 September 2023, Gulfcoast Legal Services Inc reported income of $3.4m and spending of $3.5m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $2.9m to $3.4m (+18%), an average of +4.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Gulfcoast Legal Services Inc sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within FL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ron Wood Family Resource Center ($3.4m), Correctional Leaders Association ($3.4m) and Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media ($3.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $234k (6.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.9m. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $479k, net assets of $1.0m. It reported 58 employees.