Shelter House Incorporated

Analysis

Shelter House Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Ft Walton BCH, FL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2025. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 June 2021, Shelter House Incorporated reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.2m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2021, income fell from $1.6m to $1.4m (-18%), an average of -9.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income dropped by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Shelter House Incorporated sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 84th percentile within FL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Edmund Burke Foundation Inc ($1.4m), Annas House Foundation ($1.4m) and Gettysburg Child Care Corporation ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2021, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $99k (8.1% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $695k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $314k, net assets of $852k. It reported 23 employees.