Pine Bluff Jefferson County Economic Opportunities Commission

Analysis

Pine Bluff Jefferson County Economic Opportunities Commission is a registered charity in United States, based in Rison, AR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1965, 61 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 September 2021, Pine Bluff Jefferson County Economic Opportunities Commission reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.6m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from September 2018 to September 2021, income fell from $5.7m to $1.6m (-72%), an average of -34% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 149%. Over the whole period it spent 121% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Pine Bluff Jefferson County Economic Opportunities Commission sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within AR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Why Not Prosper Inc ($1.6m), Lower Polk Community Benefit District ($1.6m) and Socrates Sculpture Park Inc ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2021, revenue came from program service revenue 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $520k. At year end it held assets of $294k against liabilities of $1.4m, net assets of -$1.1m. It reported 20 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.