Community Help Center

Analysis

Community Help Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2003, 23 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, Community Help Center reported income of $3.1m and spending of $2.9m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.5m to $3.1m (+23%), an average of +5.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 136%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Community Help Center sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Recapturing the Vision International Inc ($3.1m), Lutheran Church Charities Fund ($3.1m) and Link of Hampton Roads Incorporated ($3.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $164k (5.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.5m. At year end it held assets of $3.8m against liabilities of $205k, net assets of $3.6m. It reported 58 employees.