United Methodist Senior Services of Jackson Area Inc

Analysis

United Methodist Senior Services of Jackson Area Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Tupelo, MS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1994, 32 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, United Methodist Senior Services of Jackson Area Inc reported income of $3.6m and spending of $4.3m, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $3.6m to $3.6m (+0.1%), an average of +0.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 119% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, United Methodist Senior Services of Jackson Area Inc sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% 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 Humble Area Assistance Ministries ($3.6m), Peoples Community Action Corporation ($3.6m) and Elmview Inc ($3.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. At year end it held assets of $4.4m against liabilities of $7.2m, net assets of -$2.8m. It reported 75 employees.

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.