East Tennessee Community Design Center Inc

Analysis

East Tennessee Community Design Center Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Knoxville, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1972, 54 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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, East Tennessee Community Design Center Inc reported income of $697k and spending of $537k, leaving 23% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $273k to $697k (+156%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, East Tennessee Community Design Center Inc sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wyandanch Community Development Corporation ($697k), Osage Nation Foundation ($697k) and East Central Career Programs Inc ($696k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% and program service revenue 0.7% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $295k. At year end it held assets of $919k against liabilities of $68k, net assets of $852k. It reported 6 employees.