Arkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc

Analysis

Arkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Batesville, AR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1977, 49 years ago. Its declared purposes cover housing and shelter, which this site groups under housing and shelter. 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, Arkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc reported income of $4.7m and spending of $2.6m, leaving 45% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.3m to $4.7m (+101%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 51%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Arkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within AR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Affordable Housing America Inc ($4.7m), Esperanza Housing and Community Development Corporation ($4.7m) and Friends of the North Country Inc ($4.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 66% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $386k (15% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $700k. At year end it held assets of $29.1m against liabilities of $5.4m, net assets of $23.7m. It reported 26 employees.