Shepherds Staff Inc

Analysis

Shepherds Staff Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Montgomery, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1991, 35 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, Shepherds Staff Inc reported income of $133k and spending of $154k, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $197k to $133k (-32%), an average of -18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Shepherds Staff Inc sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile, and in the 44th percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Orange County Trial Lawyers Charities ($133k), Worldwide Marriage Encounter Section 3 Inc ($133k) and Neighborhood Transformation Center Inc ($133k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $254k against liabilities of $4,827, net assets of $249k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.