North Mississippi Rural Legal Services Inc

Analysis

North Mississippi Rural Legal Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Oxford, MS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1976, 50 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 December 2023, North Mississippi Rural Legal Services Inc reported income of $3.7m and spending of $3.6m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $3.1m to $3.7m (+19%), an average of +4.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, North Mississippi Rural Legal Services Inc 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 90th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within MS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Western Kentucky Federal Community Defender Inc ($3.7m), Greater Richmond Scan -Stop Child Abuse Now-Inc ($3.7m) and Childrens Safety Center Inc ($3.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $338k (9.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.6m. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $1.2m, net assets of $889k. It reported 53 employees.