Southwest Center for the Developmentally Disabled

Analysis

Southwest Center for the Developmentally Disabled is a registered charity in United States, based in Louisville, KY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1982, 44 years ago. 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 December 2023, Southwest Center for the Developmentally Disabled reported income of $5.2m and spending of $5.6m, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $3.1m to $5.2m (+67%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 62%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Southwest Center for the Developmentally Disabled sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within KY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lifestyles of Maryland Foundation Inc ($5.2m), BTG Community Outreach Inc ($5.2m) and Freedom Adult Foster Care Corp ($5.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 3.5% and program service revenue 90% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $3.3m. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $852k, net assets of $982k. It reported 88 employees.